AI detractors loved that previous study so much. It seems to have been brought up in the majority of conversations about AI productivity over the past six months.

(Notable to me was how few other studies they cited, which I think is because studies showing AI productivity loss are quite uncommon.)

Or maybe there’s just not that many good studies, period?

A lot of them barely rise above the level of collected anecdote, nor explore long term or more elusive factors (such as cross-system entropy). They’re also targeting an area that is fairly difficult to measure and control for.