top | item 46207511 (no title) jonfw | 2 months ago For those surveys to mean anything (for or against AI), we'd have to have an effective measure of developer productivity discuss order hn newest ponector|2 months ago In my experience the productivity measured in created merge requests increased massively.More merge requests because now the same senior developers are creating more bugs, 4x comparing to 2025. Same developers, same codebase but now with Cursor! Izkata|2 months ago Lines of code changed would be a high one as well, though that's already well-known as a bad measure.
ponector|2 months ago In my experience the productivity measured in created merge requests increased massively.More merge requests because now the same senior developers are creating more bugs, 4x comparing to 2025. Same developers, same codebase but now with Cursor! Izkata|2 months ago Lines of code changed would be a high one as well, though that's already well-known as a bad measure.
Izkata|2 months ago Lines of code changed would be a high one as well, though that's already well-known as a bad measure.
ponector|2 months ago
More merge requests because now the same senior developers are creating more bugs, 4x comparing to 2025. Same developers, same codebase but now with Cursor!
Izkata|2 months ago