Comment by epolanski

> Importantly, using AI assistance didn’t guarantee a lower score. How someone used AI influenced how much information they retained. The participants who showed stronger mastery used AI assistance not just to produce code but to build comprehension while doing so

This is my experience exactly. I have never been learning as much as with AI.

It's interesting that numbers show most users degrade but I hate the general assumption that some cannot use it properly to learn faster as well.