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6 articles covering "software-engineering"
An NBER working paper infers investor expectations from stock moves: AI is priced as a permanent 32.6% software engineering productivity gain through 2025, with expectations more than doubling by mid-2026.
DoorDash built a two-phase Claude-based multi-agent system that produced usable pull requests for 45 of 50 stale feature flags, averaging $4.79 and 13.8 minutes each.
A George Mason University study finds a software task's difficulty for AI coding agents can be predicted from patch and repository structure before the agent ever runs.
A study spanning seven AI models and five coding-agent harnesses finds they fail identically when a required repository fact is unavailable, and fabricate rather than stop.
Google says Go's built-in formatting, static typing, and compatibility promise suit an era where AI agents write code and humans mainly review it.
Meta rewrites WhatsApp's media processing library in Rust, cutting code by 44% while hardening security for 3 billion users across every major platform.