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The result is quite astonishing, but I would disagree with some of the referenced papers on which it is based. As a software and data engineer, I really would estimate the productivity gains to be much higher than the ~50% stated in the study by Peng et al. - rather between something like 100% and 1000% (yes, that is 10 times). This could be also due to the more powerful models available today and increased experience in knowing which tasks to apply them to, and how. (The study's task was also unusual since no software engineer worth their salt would (a) write a web server from scratch, and (b) do so in JavaScript. ;P)

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