> As someone who knows they are benefitting from AI (study shmuddy)

XD

Look, I get it, I still use it, but you have to admit, people also think that various bogus home remedy totally helps them get over a cold faster. There's absolutely a possibility it in no way makes us faster.

Now, you did say "benefit", that's more broad, and you implied things like polish, I've seen others mention it just makes the work easier, that could be a win in itself (for the workers). Maybe it's about accessibility. Etc.

I do think though, right now, we're all in the "home remedy" territory, until we actually measure these things.

I consider myself to be something of a cynic. That’s not to say I couldn’t be bamboozled in some circumstances.. . but I think it unlikely is this case, because I am simply OK with AI being a complete failure if indeed it is. I don’t have an irrational need for this to work. If anything I was very skeptical to start with and was pleasantly surprised to find it useful.

I’m not pushing Amway, I don’t own any crypto, and I’m bearish on the S&P right now due the market cap concentration at the top. And yet I swear that claude code is working for me quite well.

> Now, you did say "benefit", that's more broad, and you implied things like polish, I've seen others mention it just makes the work easier, that could be a win in itself (for the workers). Maybe it's about accessibility. Etc.

Yes exactly, and this is the (ambiguous) metric that I actually care about. I suspect this study will go down in history as useless and flawed, not to be overly harsh :)