"However, this productivity difference only appears for these early pipeline measures. We find no evidence that coding agent users are submitting more new papers to journals or resubmitting papers more quickly. This could reflect the timeline of getting a paper to submission, as coding agent use is a recent phenomenon. But it could also reflect that coding agents are more useful at getting projects up and running than they are at the last mile of perfecting a paper for journal submission."
"However, this productivity difference only appears for these early pipeline measures. We find no evidence that coding agent users are submitting more new papers to journals or resubmitting papers more quickly. This could reflect the timeline of getting a paper to submission, as coding agent use is a recent phenomenon. But it could also reflect that coding agents are more useful at getting projects up and running than they are at the last mile of perfecting a paper for journal submission."