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The productivity impact of coding agents

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s1mplicissimus

15h ago

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I would be interested in seeing code churn levels of these PRs. Measuring "number of pull requests" is about as insightful as measuring "number of lines of code". Would have hoped a company specializing in software developer tooling should know that ...

janpio

14h ago

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This other study looked a bit at the impact on the code longer term: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968758

s1mplicissimus

14h ago

thanks for the link.

One particularly interesting finding: "Finding 2: The DiD models suggest that the adoption of Cursor leads to a sustained accumulation of static analysis warnings and a sustained increase in code complexity." (emphasis mine)

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