{
  "title": "Custom AI assistants: what studies really measure",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/assistants-ia-sur-mesure-ce-que-mesurent-vraiment-les-etudes-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-09-03",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Reported productivity gains often rest on bounded tasks. Reading studies closely changes how to design an assistant.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building AI Assistants and Agents Without Coding",
  "place": {
    "name": "Basel",
    "region": "Bâle-Ville",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "An often-cited result",
      "point": "Sida Peng, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Peter Cihon and Mert Demirer (2023, arXiv preprint) find in a controlled experiment that assisted developers complete a defined programming task faster."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Structural limits of models",
      "point": "Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru and co-authors (2021, Proceedings of FAccT) recall that language models produce plausible text without guaranteed understanding."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What this means for an assistant",
      "point": "Measured gains concern tasks with clear scope and verifiable output."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limit of common practice",
      "point": "Building an assistant 'for the whole department' scatters effort and makes evaluation impossible.."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Basel",
      "point": "Pick one recurring task, time ten occurrences without and ten with the assistant, including verification time."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Demirer",
      "year": "2023",
      "source": "arXiv preprint"
    }
  ],
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