Every AI coding tool on the market promises you'll ship faster. A recent study says experienced developers actually got 19% slower when using them.
Read my lips: NOT beginners. NOT interns. We need EXPERIENCED developers.
Why This Hurts
This isn't some edge case buried in a footnote. The slowdown was attributed in part to time spent reviewing and debugging AI-generated output, though the study also found a significant perception-vs-reality gap where developers believed AI was helping even when it wasn't.
Senior developers didn't simply take what the computer gave them. They read it, doubted it, experimented with it, found the little errors, and corrected them. That process consumed a lot more time than it would have taken to write the software in the first place.
