What about developer burnout rates? Cause those same studies also say there was significantly less Dev burnout happening.

Have you actually read the study? People keep citing this study without reading it.

To directly measure the real-world impact of AI tools on software development, we recruited 16 experienced developers from large open-source repositories (averaging 22k+ stars and 1M+ lines of code) that they’ve contributed to for multiple years. Developers provide lists of real issues (246 total) that would be valuable to the repository—bug fixes, features, and refactors that would normally be part of their regular work.

They grabbed like 8 devs who did not have pre-existing set up workflows for optimizing AI usage, and just throw them into it as a measure of "does it help"

Imagine if I grabbed 8 devs who had never used neovim before and threw them into it without any plugins installed or configuration and tried to use that as a metric for "is nvim good for productivity"

People need to stop quoting this fuckass study lol, its basically meaningless.

Im a developer using agentic workflows with over 17 years experience.

I am telling you right now, with the right setup, I weekly turn 20 hour jobs into 20 minute jobs.

Predominantly large "bulk" operations that are mostly just boilerplate code that is necessary, where the AI has an existing huge codebase to draw from as samples and I just give it instructions of "see what already exists? implement more of that following "

A great example is integration testing where like 99% of the code is just boilerplate.

Arrange the same setup every time. Arrange your request following an openapi spec file. Send the request. Assert on the response based on the openapi spec.

I had an agent pump out 120 integration tests based on a spec file yesterday and they were, for the most part, 100% correct, yesterday. In like an hour.

The same volume of work would've easily taken me way longer.

You only skill atrophy if you go and perk off playing video games while the agents cook.

If you actually are productive and spend that freed up time working on tasks the agents cant do fast and easy, aka, the hard stuff, you instead will improve your skill even faster as now you are spending most of your time on the important tasks and not wasting 95% of your workday on easy boilerplate stuff anyone with 2 braincells can pump out.

shocked pikachu face when they can no longer finish a marathon.

Not everyone that runs is an avid runner.

But I do feel like the analogies aren't that great. Coding in notepad instead of an IDE is dumb because IDEs work and don't really have any downsides. AI mostly seems to produce slop that barely works without a ton of cajoling.