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Engineering

Do Coding Agents Make Developers Faster? What METR's Trials Found, and How to Measure Your Own Team

The '19% slower with AI' figure comes from early-2025 tools, and METR now calls its own follow-up data unreliable. Here's what the evidence says today and a two-week plan to measure your team.

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AI in practice

Gemini 4 Argon Doubles in Price on December 1: What It Does to Your AI Bill and 4 Ways to Respond

Every Gemini 4 Argon rate doubles on December 1. See what that does to cost per task, with worked examples, and four moves to test before November 30.

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Engineering

Paying for AI Coding in 2026: Subscription, API Tokens or a Local Model? We Did the Math for Three Developers

Flat plan, API tokens or a local model on your GPU? We work out monthly costs for three developer profiles using official prices, and show where CI agents and caps change the answer.

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AI in practice

What 30,000 Developers Told Stack Overflow About AI Agents in 2026, and What the Numbers Don't Say

The real AI figures from the 2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, what each number actually counts, how they compare with Sonar's data, and what a small team should do with them.

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