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Oops, I meant to write "their conclusion is that NOT investing in learning undermines productivity benefits".
I've seen no scientifically well supported evidence that LLMs improve productivity outside of limited use cases (which is useful! but the magical thinking about LLMs is unbelievable)
At most organizations I've known, devs have supportive learning structures. They learn languages, tools, infrastructure, new concepts and practices, etc, regularly through their careers.
But usually devs do that because they see clear value to spending time learning a new language or tool, or even developing new tools that make our work more efficient or effective.
Cat Hicks@grimalkina@mastodon.social
@saraislet@infosec.exchange @mhoye@mastodon.social I understand why you're frustrated with the state of the conversation and evidence. I am too, and I agree that the "productivity" investigations are super lacking. Really, I engage with qualitative interview studies of this sort as interesting artifacts and mostly read the quotes while leaving the researcher frames as you know, their frame, which I like more in some cases than others. In this particular case I thought it was an interesting contrast to the assumed unanimous...