Study: AI lifts software engineer productivity 32.6%

A US National Bureau of Economic Research paper estimates, via firms' stock price reactions, that AI raised the market's expected software engineering productivity by a permanent 32.6% from November 2022 to December 2025, offering a benchmark for budgeting between AI tools and payroll.

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