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    Guides, comparisons and engineering notes on measuring developer time, human and agent. Everything here is written from how the measurement actually works, not from how it is marketed.

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    Cursor Time Tracking: How to Track Your Coding Time in Cursor (2026)
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    Cursor Time Tracking: How to Track Your Coding Time in Cursor (2026)

    How to set up Cursor time tracking in 2026: the plugin, git-based, and telemetry options, why Cursor's agent counts as your time, and how to get hours you can actually trust and prove.

    Matt
    VS Code Time Tracking: How to Track Coding Time in VS Code (2026)
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    VS Code Time Tracking: How to Track Coding Time in VS Code (2026)

    How to set up VS Code time tracking in 2026: the plugin, git-based, and telemetry options, what each one misses, and how to get hours you can actually trust and prove.

    Matt
    The Developer Dashboard: What to Put On One (and What to Ignore) in 2026
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    The Developer Dashboard: What to Put On One (and What to Ignore) in 2026

    What a developer dashboard should actually show in 2026: the metrics worth a panel, the vanity numbers to cut, why AI broke the old charts, and how to build one you can stand behind.

    Matt
    Coding Stats: Which Ones Actually Mean Something (2026)
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    Coding Stats: Which Ones Actually Mean Something (2026)

    A builder's guide to coding stats in 2026: the numbers worth tracking, the vanity metrics to ignore, why AI broke the classic dashboards, and how to turn stats into proof you can stand behind.

    Matt
    Developer Time Tracking: The Complete Guide for 2026
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    Developer Time Tracking: The Complete Guide for 2026

    A practical developer time tracking guide: the four ways to track coding time, why AI broke commit-volume as a proxy, and how to get hours you can actually trust and prove.

    Matt
    How to Track Cursor Usage (Time, AI Diffs, and Shipped Work) in 2026
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    How to Track Cursor Usage (Time, AI Diffs, and Shipped Work) in 2026

    Track Cursor usage three ways: editor time, AI-generated diff share, and shipped output. Because Cursor is a VS Code fork, editor plugins can see it, but they cannot tell your work from the agent's. Here is how to get a number you can defend.

    Matt
    How to Track Claude Code Usage (Time, Tokens, and Shipped Work) in 2026
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    How to Track Claude Code Usage (Time, Tokens, and Shipped Work) in 2026

    Track Claude Code usage three ways: token and cost logs, session time, and shipped output. Here is what each method sees, what it misses, and how to get a number you can actually defend.

    Matt
    AI vs Human Code Attribution: How to Split Credit Accurately (2026)
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    AI vs Human Code Attribution: How to Split Credit Accurately (2026)

    AI vs human code attribution is not something you can read off a finished diff. Here is how attribution actually works: track authorship at the moment of writing, separate agent output from human decisions, and keep an audited record instead of guessing after the fact.

    Matt
    How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants (2026)
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    How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants (2026)

    Measure the ROI of AI coding assistants by comparing what you spend (subscriptions, tokens, review time) against what actually shipped, not lines generated or suggestions accepted. Here is the framework, the numbers that mislead, and how to prove the payback.

    Matt
    How to Track the Percentage of AI-Generated Code in Your Project (2026)
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    How to Track the Percentage of AI-Generated Code in Your Project (2026)

    Track AI-generated code percentage by measuring diffs at the commit level, not by eyeballing a codebase. Here is what actually counts as AI-generated, the methods that work, and why the number alone still cannot prove authorship.

    Matt
    How to Turn Your GitHub Activity Into a Developer Resume (2026)
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    How to Turn Your GitHub Activity Into a Developer Resume (2026)

    Your GitHub already contains better resume material than anything you could write from memory. How to build a developer resume from GitHub activity: mine your commit history for real bullets, quantify without lying, and link one verifiable destination.

    Matt
    How to Show Your Coding Activity to Recruiters (2026)
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    How to Show Your Coding Activity to Recruiters (2026)

    Recruiters spend seconds on your profile and cannot tell curated activity from gamed activity. How to show coding activity to recruiters in a way they can actually verify: curated repos, visible recency, and an audited record of what you shipped.

    Matt

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