Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools

Science in the Age of Algorithms

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Algorithms As a Vehicle to Reflective Equilibrium:‬ Behavioral Economics 2.0

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The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France

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Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia

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Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools

How do the productivity effects of AI evolve across successive generations of tools, and to what extent do task-level gains ultimately translate into final outp

Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools

How do the productivity effects of AI evolve across successive generations of tools, and to what extent do task-level gains ultimately translate into final outp

The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Household Balance Sheets: Experimental Evidence from Two US States

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AI Code Is Producing a Quality Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About

The productivity numbers look great. AI coding tools are everywhere.

AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends - The JetBrains Blog

How many developers use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, JetBrains Junie, and others)? Evidence from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026.

Kilo - Pricing

Pricing for Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI

AI boosts worker productivity — but does that translate to final outputs? | MIT Sloan

A new study found that developers using AI tools can write much more code than those working without AI, but they don’t release as much new software.

Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything | Pere Villega

AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification.

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