Yes and if was done with people using cursor at the time and already had a few caveats back then about who was actually experienced with the tool etc.
Still an interesting observation. It was also on brown field open source projects which imo explains a bit why people building new stuff have vastly different experiences than this.
Yes and if was done with people using cursor at the time and already had a few caveats back then about who was actually experienced with the tool etc.
Still an interesting observation. It was also on brown field open source projects which imo explains a bit why people building new stuff have vastly different experiences than this.
The exact numbers certainly would be different today, but you would probably still see the effect that there’s an overestimation of productivity
Yes. No agents, no deep research, no tools, and just Sonnet-3.5 and 3.7 - I’d love to see the same study today with Opus-4.6 and Codex-5.3
Probably 38% slower now...
Please don’t project. :)