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.

  • leisesprecher@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Also my experience. It sometimes tries to be smart and gets everything wrong.

    I think code shows clearly, that LLMs don’t actually understand what’s written. Often enough you can clearly see it trying to insert a common pattern even though that doesn’t make sense at this point.