The productivity impact of coding agents
4 days ago
- #Cursor agent study
- #Developer productivity
- #AI in coding
- Cursor's agent increases PR merges by 39% in companies.
- Experienced developers write more plans before coding and accept agent-written code more often.
- Junior developers prefer Tab's code, while seniors prefer agents' code.
- Experienced developers may use agents more effectively due to better context management and confidence in evaluating code.
- Cursor's agent usage shows no significant change in PR revert rates or bugfix rates.
- 61% of agent requests are for implementing code.
- More experienced developers tend to plan actions before generating code.
- No single metric yet measures AI's economic impact on software engineering.