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by jonfw 194 days ago
For those surveys to mean anything (for or against AI), we'd have to have an effective measure of developer productivity
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In my experience the productivity measured in created merge requests increased massively.

More merge requests because now the same senior developers are creating more bugs, 4x comparing to 2025. Same developers, same codebase but now with Cursor!

Lines of code changed would be a high one as well, though that's already well-known as a bad measure.