The reverse trend is gaining momentum
In a study by the non-profit organization Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) this month, 16 programmers were given about 250 coding tasks and asked not to use AI tools or to use what METR defines as “AI tools from early 2025,” such as Anthropic’s Claude and Cursor Pro.
The results are surprising and perhaps unexpected: programmers actually spend 19% more time when using AI than when they don’t.The programmers in the study initially believed that AI would reduce the time spent working on tasks by almost a quarter, but in the end, they found that these tools speed up work by 20%, but at the cost of numerous errors. Errors that they or other programmers still have to find and correct.
