Study: AI coding tools do not increase software output

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Harvard University researchers Fiona Chen and James Stratton based their work on engineering analytics data from Jellyfish, covering more than 700 software development companies, over 700,000 employees, and 300 million work events (commits and pull requests), spanning from 2021 to March 2026.

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Study: AI coding agents produce more code, but software output has not increased
Harvard University researchers Fiona Chen and James Stratton, based on engineering analytics data from Jellyfish, covering more than 700 software development companies, over 700,000 employees, and 300 million work events (commits and pull requests), spanning from 2021 to March 2026.

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