Closed PRs, commits, loc etc are useless vanity metrics.
With ai code you have more loc and NEED more PRs to fix all its slop.
In the end you have increased numbers with net negative effect
With ai code you have more loc and NEED more PRs to fix all its slop.
In the end you have increased numbers with net negative effect
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDDYKRFjhk (from Stanford, not an RCT, but the largest scale with actual commits from 100K developers across 600+ companies, and tries to account for reworking AI output. Same guys behind the "ghost engineers" story.)
Emphasis added. They modeled a way to detect when AI output is being reworked, and still find a 15-20% increase in throughput. Specific timestamp: https://youtu.be/tbDDYKRFjhk?t=590&si=63qBzP6jc7OLtGyk