@alecsargent@social.linux.pizza @82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe here's the paper I was thinking of: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09089 There are a *ton* of low-quality studies that do things like "measure" productivity by asking developers how productive they were, or giving them toy problems to solve where there's no preexisting code and there's a known valid solution.