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Learning effects of AI tools on productivity

Determine how cumulative experience with AI tools (e.g., Cursor usage hours) affects developer productivity on real tasks, and disentangle improvements in AI-assisted performance from possible atrophy in non-AI performance.

References

Overall, it's unclear how to interpret these results, and more research is needed to understand the impact of learning effects with AI tools on developer productivity.

— Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (Becker et al., 12 Jul 2025) in Factor Analysis: Factors with an unclear effect on slowdown — Subsubsection “Below-average use of AI tools”