Meta-analysis of 23 studies shows moderate productivity gains from GenAI coding assistants (Hedges' g=0.33) but no significant effect on learning (g=0.14).
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Industry practitioners indicate that generative AI heightens demand for prompting and output evaluation skills while reinforcing the value of problem-solving, critical thinking, architecture design, and debugging in software engineering.
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A meta-analysis of the effect of generative AI on productivity and learning in programming
Meta-analysis of 23 studies shows moderate productivity gains from GenAI coding assistants (Hedges' g=0.33) but no significant effect on learning (g=0.14).
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