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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

The reward mechanism in the brain is triggered when you bet. I think it also triggers a second time when you do win, but I'm not sure. So, yeah, sometimes the LLM spits out something good, and your brain rewards you already when you ask it. Hence, you probably do feel better, because you constantly get hits dopamine.