Measuring the Self-Reported Impact of Early-2026 AI on Technical Worker Productivity
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Published Measuring the Self-Reported Impact of Early-2026 AI on Technical Worker Productivity — a self-report survey of 349 technical workers, with a median change of 1.4–2× by value. The authors also gave reasons to doubt those figures
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The first follow-up result of the methodology overhaul announced on Feb 24, 2026. It noted again that, in the 2025 study, respondents had overestimated the impact on time taken by 40 percentage points on average
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