My post wasn't written in a way to make friends, but:

> I've since rewritten nearly 100% of the prose in the analysis with my own, more inflammatory and verbose style. I also intentionally left in my natural mispellings and typos, to prove it was me.

Thank you thank you thank you. I would love to be able to describe how hard it was for me to think about the actual evidence you're presenting when reading about it through the AI writing, but I suspect it's one of those things where it bothers you or it doesn't. If you'd like to empathize, maybe I'll give it one try: imagine an otherwise solid PhD thesis written in crayon. The facts and evidence and reasoning are unaffected, but it's just so hard to take it seriously.

Anyway, with the rewrite I don't have to battle my kneejerk reactivity nearly as much.

I'm no expert like she is, but based on what I know, I agree with your wife on the statistics. That style of analysis is going to be the best you can do with the data available. It's an accepted way to stretch data without being too dependent on an assumed distribution. It's a good analysis. I still don't come away with the conclusion that concerns about AI code maintenance are necessarily overblown, but that's fine. I think your analysis project is a very solid contribution, and it's a hell of a lot more evidence-based than the rants people were posting.