Harvard study: AI increases code volume but not productivity

An analysis of 718 companies via the Jellyfish platform reveals that AI coding assistants generate more code without increasing the number of completed tasks.

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Researchers attribute this gap to increased workload during later development phases due to AI-generated code.

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