Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Here's How We Lie With Statistics

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• Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TLDR: no.

  There, I saved you 15 minutes and 6 advertisements.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I make it no secret that I am against the AI Hype train.

  I’m not a scientist either, and my opinions aren’t facts

  I think I’m just going to stop right there. I give them credit for honesty, But if you have to come right out and say everything you’re about to say is complete unverifiable bullshit, I have no reason to read it unless I’m in that echo chamber.

  If you get code from copilot, theres an above average chance it’s commented and commonly used.

  Does/did stack exchange improve code quality? Does anybody really care?

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  • actually@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    stats published elsewhere show experienced programmers loose productivity using these new tools because they have to debug and fix things.

    I think such tools work better for inexperienced programmers who are making small code stuff, like school assignments and self teaching, or need a skeleton made to fill in later.

    The problem is that this is not where the big money is at, so a bubble and questionable actions have occurred trying to capitalize on it.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Our team isn’t using it to generate huge swaths of code, just boilerplates for tedious stuff.

      When I use it, I use it to crap out boilerplate stuff. Give me a flask app with these endoints, setup debug logging and give me jinga templates with these variables.

      I don’t need to write that code more times in my life :)

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