
Does AI Secretly Slow Developers Down?
From The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Published 7/16/2025

From The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Published 7/16/2025
Are AI coding tools actually making developers less productive? A new study from Meta’s AI research nonprofit, METR, claims that developers using AI were 19% slower, even though they believed they were 20% faster. In this episode of the AI Daily Brief, we break down the study’s design, explore…