Entering the Agentocene: A Statistical Investigation of AI-Era Coding
TL;DR This started as a search for KPI differences from AI adoption. That led to a more basic question first: can a shift like this be proven statistically at all? Software keeps handing more work to the machine: compilers, libraries, autocomplete. AI is the next step, and this time it shows up in the data, not just in opinions. I mined 5,009 git repositories (Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, commit history from 2019 through mid-2026) and tracked 10,812 individual developers to look for a measurable trace of that shift....