I don't think that research will show what you're hoping it would

I don't think that research will show what you're hoping it would. I'm not a big proponent of AI, you shouldn't bother going through my history but it is there to back up my statement if you're bored. Anyway, even I find it hard to argue against AI agents for productivity, but I think ik depend a lot on how you use them. As an anecdotal example I mainly work with Python, C and Go, but once in a while I also work with Typescript and C#. I've got 15 years experience with js/ts but when I've been away from it for a month it's not easy for me to remember the syntax, and before AI agents I'd need to go to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript or similar quite a lot when I jumped back into it. AI agents allow me to do the same thing so much quicker. These AI agent tools can turn your intend into code rather quickly, and at least for me, quicker than I often can. They do it rather unintrusive, with little effort on your part and they present it with nice little pull-request-lite functionalities. …