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A new NBER working paper by Blumenfeld, Hazell, Lian and Schaab estimates AI raised the market's expected present value of software engineering productivity by a permanent 32.6% from November 2022 to December 2025. The effect on GDP is 3.6%, rising to 6.5% when R&D productivity gains are included. By mid-2026, rapid coding agent progress had more than doubled the impact.
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