ai productivity paradox

Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longe

How One Experiment Made Software Engineering 20% Slower

How One Experiment Made Software Engineering 20% Slower In a 2025 DORA report, auto-generated code required twice as many debugging cycles as manually written code, revealing a 20% slowdown in overall engineering speed. The experiment integrated AI assistants into a mid-size CI pipeline and measured every stage of the dev