{"id":1000,"date":"2026-02-19T12:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:40:04","slug":"ai-improves-productivity-in-the-short-term-without-decreasing-maintainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Ai improves productivity in the short term, without decreasing maintainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Studied 150 Developers Using AI (Here\u2019s What&#039;s Actually Changed...)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9EbCb5A408?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/codemanship.wordpress.com\/2026\/01\/05\/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game-different-dice\/\">The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion \u2013 Same Game, Different Dice \u2013 Codemanship&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2507.00788\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2507.00788<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lot of interest in Agentic AI and coding assistants, lots of hype, and lots of scare. This paper does a large-scale experiment on how much coding assistants really help. They look at 150 developers, and they find that AI helps in short-term productivity without any impact on maintainability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, they explain a lot of cool things and demystify the use of AI. They find that knowing what you want to do helps a lot when using AI agents &#8211; so, again, good programmers will be fantastic, while bad programmers will not have a chance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice reading! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion \u2013 Same Game, Different Dice \u2013 Codemanship&#8217;s Blog https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2507.00788 There is a lot of interest in Agentic AI and coding assistants, lots of hype, and lots of scare. This paper does a large-scale experiment on how much coding assistants really help. They look at 150 developers, and they find that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=1000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ai improves productivity in the short term, without decreasing maintainability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}