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narush on July 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-sou...

Noting that most of our power comes from the number of tasks that developers complete; it's 246 total completed issues in the course of this study -- developers do about 15 issues (7.5 with AI and 7.5 without AI) on average.

biophysboy on July 10, 2025 | [–]

Did you compare the variance within individuals (due to treatment) to the variance between individuals (due to other stuff)?

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