Does AI use make us slower to complete our tasks?

[Daniel Rockwell]

Hi Open Oregon Folks,

This is my first time trying to send a message to the group. So please forgive me if I do it wrong. :)

I read an article on Ars Technics titled "Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower”.

It made me think that this could be worth studying for Open Education Content Creation.  It might fly in the face of people’s gut feelings and be enlightening given the “be careful cautious” approach that Open Oregon shared in the recent past.

I do not have the bandwidth to do a study like this but I wanted to put it out into the universe so that someone who has bandwidth might run with the idea.

Cheers,

Daniel Rockwell, PhD
(he/him/they/them)
Director | WOU Center for Teaching & Learning
Western Oregon University

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