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When AI extends work: the METR counter-finding

In a randomised trial with 16 experienced developers and 246 tasks, early-2025 AI tools increased completion time by 19%. Participants perceived their benefit much more favourably.

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What this finding means.

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Familiar, large open source projects and tools of the time were examined. Other tasks and newer models may produce different results.

Our derivation for a pilot operation

test support against a real comparison group; Document perceived speed and measured completion separately.

This derivation is an editorial recommendation from MSD. It is not a further result of the study cited.

Source and version

METR · randomisierter Versuch · Publikations-/Bezugsjahr 2025. Recherchiert am 12.11.2026.

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KI & Agenten / Methodik / 2026

Neue Werkzeuge, neue Auswahlverzerrung ↗

METR describes a follow-up experiment in February 2026. Evidence of faster work is difficult to interpret due to selection of participants and tasks as well as problems with time measurement.

METR · Methodenupdate 24.02.2026
KI & Agenten / Grundlage / 2017

Attention: Language can be processed in parallel ↗

The Transformer paper presents an attention-based architecture for sequence processing. It is a methodological building block of later language and multimodal models.

Vaswani et al. · Attention Is All You Need