“Are AI coding environments making people faster? I don't think so!”
Our reading:
In his view, AI coding environments do not make people faster.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
An opinion, a recommendation, or too vague to test. Listed, not scored.
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Why
He asks a question and answers with an opinion: "I don't think so!" He backs it with a study that "suggested" a slowdown. That study is real: METR's July 2025 trial found experienced open-source developers took 19% longer with early-2025 AI tools, which METR called a snapshot of one setting. But he names no group of users, no tools, no period, and no measure of speed. Scoring the sentence would mean treating a hedged opinion as a firm claim and inventing its scope, which earlier reviews found unfair to him. So I treat it as an opinion that cannot be checked. His description of the cited study is accurate.
Caveats
- A firmer version, such as 'AI tools slow experienced developers on their own codebases,' could be tested, but he did not state it.
Evidence (1 item)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
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- Observation
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Where we had to interpret
- The sentence poses a question and answers it with an opinion ("I don't think so"). It is not a firm factual assertion.
- He supports it by citing a study that 'suggested' a slowdown, which is itself hedged wording.
- He names no population, tools, task type, period, or measure of speed. Turning this into a test would mean inventing those, which an earlier review found unfair to him.
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Source and dates
Where's Your Ed At, How To Argue With An AI Booster, paragraph 400.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2025-08-25.
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: Where's Your Ed At, How To Argue With An AI Booster
Are AI coding environments making people faster? I don't think so!
- Where
- paragraph 400
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- 2025-08-25
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