Note that they define “more software” by “more tickets closed.” Make of that what you will. They argue that this is a good measure because the scope of tickets did not increase. Worth considering whether you believe this captures what they claim it does. Are the extra tests you write thanks to coding agents represented in the tickets for your work?

“But all that extra code doesn’t translate directly into improved software output on the firm level. On the contrary, the resolution rate for Issues and Epics (i.e. wholesale software features) tracked by tools like Jira did not change in a statistically significant way after AI tools were introduced (the researchers also found no “compositional shift” in the size or complexity of those Jira-tracked issues across the AI introduction).”