A new study published by METR, a non-profit AI research organisation, has found that using AI-powered coding tools may actually slow down experienced developers despite expectations that such tools ...

Software engineer workflows have been transformed in recent years by an influx of AI coding tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot, which promise to enhance productivity by automatically writing lines ...

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A new study has found that coding agents were used in an estimated range of 22.20% to 28.66% of 128,018 GitHub projects. The researchers found adoption across mature projects, established ...

Before performing the study, the developers in question expected the AI tools would lead to a 24 percent reduction in the time needed for their assigned tasks. Even after completing those tasks, the ...

A Microsoft study found command-line AI coding agents were linked to more merged pull requests, but adoption and review capacity shaped the results. A large-scale Microsoft study found that developers ...