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The Productivity Evidence

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Why Agent Hype can fall short of reality – Joel Becker, METR

AI Engineer · 21 min · December 24, 2025

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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

METR · Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Beth Barnes, David Rein · July 10, 2025

We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

METR · Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Tom Cunningham, David Rein, Khalid Mahamud · February 24, 2026

The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025

MIT NANDA

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How METR measures Long Tasks and Experienced Open Source Dev Productivity - Joel Becker, METR

AI Engineer · 1 hr 16 min · January 19, 2026

Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng? (Stanford 120k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford

AI Engineer · 17 min · December 11, 2025