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The productivity impact of coding agents

We’re interested in the open questions around how developers use Cursor’s agent in their work and the productivity impacts of Cursor in organizations.Suproteem Sarkar, an assistant professor of finance and applied AI at the University of Chicago, recently conducted a study analyzing agents' early effects across tens of thousands of Cursor users.The study found that companies merge 39% more PRs after Cursor's agent became the default. It also found that experienced developers write more plans bef...

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