https://aifaultline.com/authors/leon-musolff/New papers by Leon Musolff in the AI Fault Line guide, and news naming them. https://empiricrafting.substack.com/p/is-ai-replacing-programmers-or-boostinghttps://empiricrafting.substack.com/p/is-ai-replacing-programmers-or-boostingMon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Justified Posteriors podcast (Andrey Fradkin) discusses a new paper by Mert Demirer, Leon Musolff and Liyuan Yang, 'Writing Code vs. Shipping Code', which estimates how successive generations of AI coding tools affect software production productivity. https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-2139-ssrn-4945566/https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-2139-ssrn-4945566/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000Reports on three separate field experiments (at Microsoft, Accenture, and a Fortune 100 firm) measuring how GitHub Copilot access affects software developers' output, finding sizable increases in completed tasks per week that are largest for less-experienced programmers. As one of the largest employer-scale randomized trials of a generative AI coding tool to date, it adds enterprise-level evidence to the debate over whether AI narrows or widens skill gaps among workers.