# šŸ˜± Research Says AI slows down dev by 19% ?! Thoughts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussions\ **Created:** [July 12, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/research-says-ai-slows-down-dev-by-19-thoughts/117094 "2025-07-12T19:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![curious\_coder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/curious_coder/32/49567_2.png) [@curious\_coder](https://forum.cursor.com/u/curious_coder)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/research-says-ai-slows-down-dev-by-19-thoughts/117094/1 "2025-07-12T19:16:32Z")
[https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/ai-might-be-slowing-down-some-employees-work-a-study-says/91212590](https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/ai-might-be-slowing-down-some-employees-work-a-study-says/91212590) So I disagree. Iā€™ve been using AI for development for two years. Itā€™s all I use. I just completed a three month hyper focus and the product produced at the end of those three months wouldā€™ve taken a year pre-AI. Would be interested in a healthy debate on both sides of the article maybe with supporting metrics? ---
**Author:** ![thepKz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thepkz/32/31508_2.png) [@thepKz](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thepKz)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/research-says-ai-slows-down-dev-by-19-thoughts/117094/2 "2025-07-12T19:20:38Z")
AI slows down those who call themselves ā€œDevā€ If you canā€™t understand any of the code AI generates, then youā€™ll end up cleaning up AIā€™s mess every single day. ---
**Author:** ![thepKz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thepkz/32/31508_2.png) [@thepKz](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thepKz)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/research-says-ai-slows-down-dev-by-19-thoughts/117094/3 "2025-07-12T19:23:22Z")
Honestly, ever since AI showed up, instead of needing a team of 10 people, you just need 3 ppl with Cursor running at full speed and the job even gets done much faster. ---
**Author:** ![matgenehr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@matgenehr](https://forum.cursor.com/u/matgenehr)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/research-says-ai-slows-down-dev-by-19-thoughts/117094/4 "2025-07-13T00:53:28Z")
kind of. my team is 3 people and we need to think a lot and use a lot of our expertise while using cursor. ai is still giving out a lot of errors. but indeed, the development proccess is way faster. ---
**Author:** ![lolshadowban](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/lolshadowban/32/68880_2.png) [@lolshadowban](https://forum.cursor.com/u/lolshadowban)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/research-says-ai-slows-down-dev-by-19-thoughts/117094/5 "2025-07-13T06:16:06Z")
AI makes developers lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Artemonim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/artemonim/32/56113_2.png) [@Artemonim](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Artemonim)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/research-says-ai-slows-down-dev-by-19-thoughts/117094/6 "2025-07-13T06:30:32Z")
99% of the projects below were written via the Agent in the June-July (despite the fact that I have other things to do besides programming). Even the writing and design of the Hub and the Compass repos were done by Claude 4, based on recommendations from my conversation with Gemini, while I acted as the supervising editor. I wouldā€™ve easily spent another two full months just to learn how to write in Python, PowerShell, Shell, Go, and YAML at the level these projects require. Sure, I had some theoretical understanding of Software Engineering, but thereā€™s no way I couldā€™ve written tens of thousands of lines of code in that time. Hereā€™s another thought: to effectively develop through Agents, you need to be a strong prompt engineer and context engineer. If youā€™re a senior developer, your experience helps you avoid certain architectural pitfalls ā€” the kind Iā€™m still running into as I learn (both in open and private projects) ā€” but you might actually be worse at coding through Agents, simply because youā€™re feeding them the wrong prompts. > **[GitHub - Artemonim/AgentTools: A comprehensive ecosystem of AI-assisted...](https://github.com/Artemonim/AgentTools)** > > A comprehensive ecosystem of AI-assisted development tools for modern software engineering > **[GitHub - Artemonim/Artemonim-Little-Tools: A modular and extensible suite of command-line...](https://github.com/Artemonim/Artemonim-Little-Tools)** > > A modular and extensible suite of command-line utilities designed for various media, text, and AI-driven processing tasks. The project is built with a plugin-based architecture, making it easy to add, remove, or develop new tools.