ssullivan.bsky.social
@ssullivan.bsky.social
Software developer. Occasional writer and graphic designer. He/Him
There was a study done earlier this year that showed programmers using LLMs took 19% more time to complete their work. That’s writing code, which just needs to work correctly, not a book that needs to be understood while read. (Settings aside that good code should also be easy to understand.)
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...
metr.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
There was a study done earlier this year that showed programmers using LLMs took 19% more time to complete their work. That’s writing code, which just needs to work correctly, not a book that needs to be understood while read. (Settings aside that good code should also be easy to understand.)
Shakespeare’s histories were just Elizabethan fan fics.
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Shakespeare’s histories were just Elizabethan fan fics.
Check out Interface RED Vol. 2.
August 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Check out Interface RED Vol. 2.
The north remembers.
Editorial: Trump underestimates how proud, united and, most importantly, petty Canadians are
By: Chris Standin President Trump has gone ahead with his long rumoured plans to put a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods sold in the United States (other than energy, which got 10%). He believes he can...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The north remembers.
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The point about AI training is that it is not a ghost in a machine learning by diligent study; it is massive corporate power expropriating work and asking to be excused from the law in exchange for goods it will not deliver and profit it will keep to itself.
August 2, 2024 at 6:49 AM
The point about AI training is that it is not a ghost in a machine learning by diligent study; it is massive corporate power expropriating work and asking to be excused from the law in exchange for goods it will not deliver and profit it will keep to itself.