alt Hacker NewsI've also seen an increase in merged PRs, but it coincided with developers opening smaller PRs. In other words, AI made devs break work down more so they opened more PRs for the same work. That's still good, because smaller increments are better, but there' no actual increase in coding productivity, and it means the context-switching burden from review work went up e.g developers slowed down in a different area.
I'm yet to be convinced that number of PRs as a productivity metric is any less flawed than counting lines of code.
I can believe - easily - that there's a real uplift here, but attaching any meaning to the 24% number at all is a massive overstep.