New Harvard review on the impacts of AI and software development productivity
+30% Lines of code added
+23% Pull requests created
+20% Code commits
+49% Time to complete code review
+35% Review comments per pull request
+14% Share of workers performing code review
We're creating code faster, but code reviews are taking much longer and requiring more revisions, with no statistically significant increase in resolved issues.
I'm actually pretty surprised by this because I absolutely feel faster using coding agents
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[ 6.4 ms ] story [ 45.8 ms ] thread+30% Lines of code added
+23% Pull requests created
+20% Code commits
+49% Time to complete code review
+35% Review comments per pull request
+14% Share of workers performing code review
We're creating code faster, but code reviews are taking much longer and requiring more revisions, with no statistically significant increase in resolved issues.
I'm actually pretty surprised by this because I absolutely feel faster using coding agents