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.