The study tracked around 800 developers, comparing their output with and without GitHub's Copilot coding assistant over three-month periods. Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request...

The study tracked around 800 developers, comparing their output with and without GitHub’s Copilot coding assistant over three-month periods. Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request cycle time and throughput, Uplevel found no meaningful improvements for those using Copilot.

  • xavier_berthiaume@jlai.luEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Exactly, I’ve found them most useful to either summarize a text you feed it, or do broad ‘google like’ queries. I don’t trust it with anything beyond that