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A new study shows AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex systematically overestimate task durations, sometimes by ten times.

They also rate their own work about 20 percentage points higher than actual performance.

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A new study shows AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex systematically overestimate task durations, sometimes by ten times. They also rate their own work about 20 percentage points higher than actual performance.