Any study that wants to say anything about the impact of coding agents on whether more software is being created or not can't limit itself to what firms are doing that create a footprint of "work events — including GitHub coding activity, Jira issues, and Google Calendar events".

This is software that would not existed without coding agents: https://fluximp.org

Sure its a coding agent itself, but I would never have tried to create it manually as I would have expected it to be too much work to see it through as solo dev. There were no issues created anywhere, no calendar events, and there is very little github activity (I primarily used Mercurial on a private server; git is just for distribution).

I started it with Kilo Code and after a couple of months it was purely self-modified and has been since then. I was a bit worried that it wouldn't work on Linux and I'd either have to use another agent or use it running on my Windows box to modify the code on my Linux box to get it working, but it just worked so the streak of being self-modified has continue.

I want to make an indie game and I'm working towards that with the project I'm using to benchmark FluxImp. My first job was as game dev and I took a shot at indie game dev 20 years ago (failed; not fun). Its something I had long written off as too time consuming to even start, but with coding agents I no longer feel that's true.

All of the stories about non-software engineers making small software that is useful to them also seems unlikely to generate the kind of footprint that lends itself to being easily studied.