New research from Microsoft and academia, published in ACM Queue, finds that AI coding tools' impact is limited because developers spend only 14% of their time writing code, and gains vary widely by t…
Microsoft's largest real-world field study of AI coding agents, covering tens of thousands of engineers over four months, found that adopters of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI merged 24% more pull…
Microsoft Research published a field study showing engineers who adopted Claude Code merged 24% more pull requests, but Microsoft's Experiences and Devices division was instructed to remove the tool b…
A Microsoft Research study of tens of thousands of engineers found that AI coding agents increased merged pull request throughput by 24% over a 16-week period, but the company cancelled most of its Cl…
A study of tens of thousands of engineers at Microsoft over its early-2026 rollout found that adopters of Anthropic's Claude Code and GitHub's Copilot CLI merged roughly 24% more pull requests than th…
Microsoft researchers found that AI-coding agent adoption among its engineers spreads primarily through peer influence, not mandates, with an engineer's odds of trying GitHub's Copilot CLI rising 216%…