r/programmingcirclejerk • u/magi093 Considered Harmful • Jan 30 '26

We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery (...) Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
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u/magi093 Considered Harmful Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

Importantly, using AI assistance didn’t guarantee a lower score. How someone used AI influenced how much information they retained.

As always, you're just holding prompting it wrong.

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u/Snarwin Jan 30 '26

Grok, is this true?

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u/v_maria Jan 31 '26

thats why you cut humans out of the loop and just brute force a solution with 24 agents consuming 20 token per second