A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI
This academic paper examines the adoption and impact of AI-powered coding tools, specifically Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, following their rollout in early 2026. It provides a technical analysis of how developers integrate command-line AI agents into their workflows.
Why it matters
As AI coding agents become standard, understanding their impact on developer productivity and software engineering practices is critical for the tech industry.
Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Emerson Murphy-Hill [ view email ] [v1] Wed, 1 Jul 2026 19:24:27 UTC (454 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Adoption and Impact of Command-Line AI Coding Agents: A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, by Emerson Murphy-Hill and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.SE < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-07 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI cs.HC References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers?
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