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CoPilot's impacts on coding

2024-01-29 17:39:15.511285+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

My shocked face: Visual Studio Magazine: New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality'

The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code compared to what would have been written by a human. In other words: "Is it more similar to the careful, refined contributions of a Senior Developer, or more akin to the disjointed work of a short-term contractor?"

Spoiler: Disjointed junior programmer, with lots of re-implementation rather than re-use, and lots of fairly quick churn.

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#Comment Re: CoPilot's impacts on coding made: 2024-01-29 22:58:10.536557+01 by: spc476

It will only be curtailed when it threatens the C-suite.

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