ekrisza

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   by ekrisza 6mo ago

   > However, LLMs might reduce that effort to zero — we just don't know how developers will look after ten years of using LLMs now. LLMs might help the new joiner produce code on the level of an average developer faster. But, at the s
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   by ekrisza 6mo ago

   It would be interesting to learn more about those projects. I also published such a longitudinal study not long ago: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44427-025-00019-y In my study, I have seen that 16.1%
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   by ekrisza 6mo ago

   One reason could be that it is hard to evaluate productivity growth, in a general sense, after such a short time. If we look at the Laws of Software Evolution, we should not really expect any improvement on the long run. This, however, does
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   Do developers have agency? A study of 66k GitHub projects (7.3TB)(link.springer.com)

   3 points by ekrisza 6mo ago|1 comments
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   by ekrisza 6mo ago

   I'm the author of this study. I spent the last year diving into ~7.3TB of data from 65,987 GitHub projects to see how far the laws of software evolution (proposed decades ago by Lehman) hold up on such a large dataset. The Findings: A