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Developers Swear AI Makes Them Faster. A Stopwatch Says They're 19% Slower

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There are two completely different AIs — the one you're forced to use and the one an expert chose — and we keep confusing them. Five measured findings, the methodology behind each, and the one mechanism that explains all of it.
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