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Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) - Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford

Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov-Blanch presents a study of about 100,000 developers that finds an average productivity gain of roughly 20% from AI tools, with wide variation. He covers which teams, codebases, languages and tasks gain the most, and where some teams get less productive.

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