I am going to mildly dispute the claim that people we spend most time with don’t want to hurt us.
Ok, if we’re talking about offline, real world interactions, I think this is probably true.
But online, we are constantly fed propaganda. All the time, you are encountering attempts to make you believe stuff that isn’t true. And yes, humans were vulnerable to this before we had AI.
This is about what I expected.
Future work ought to try A with inexperienced programmers, or xperienced programmers working on unfamiliar codebases. A theory we might have at this point is that it’s harder for AI to help more experienced people.