Why AI coding claims don't add up (News)

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  What up nerds?

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  I'm Jared and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, September 8th, 2025.

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  A shorter than usual episode this week and no new pods

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  because Adam and I are flying to California to hang with the Oxide team during their annual internal conference.

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  We hope to have some sweet content for you on the backside of this trip.

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  Fingers crossed, I'll get a chance to shout in their data center.

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  What I'm going to do is not recommended.

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  Do not try this at home.

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  Okay, let's get into this week's news.

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  Why AI coding claims don't add up.

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  Mike Judge, no, not that Mike Judge, has been coding for 25 plus years.

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  He was an early adopter of AI coding and a fan until a couple months ago.

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  Now he's mad, furious even.

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  Quote, I read the meter study and suddenly got serious doubts.

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  In that study,

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  the authors discovered that developers were unreliable narrators of their own productivity.

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  They thought AI was making them 20% faster, but it was actually making them 19% slower.

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  This shocked me

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  because I had just told someone the week before that I thought AI was only making me about 25% faster,

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