alt Hacker NewsI feel like all you need to know about how seriously to take this is that they cite that ancient early-2025 METR study, and describe it in the text as "recently one even found..."
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katzgrau • today at 2:02 AM
Same thought - 80% through reading it occurred to me to check the citations. A few items from 2025 and most well before that.
So much has changed since late 2025 one can’t really draw any conclusions from this.
In fact, I’m guessing things will continue to move so fast that by the time one were to execute a survey of developers, many of the responses and findings are no longer relevant.
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I felt the same and why didn’t the authors look over METR’s recent material?
https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-11-ai-usage-survey/