Flutterby™! : CoPilot's impacts on coding

Next unread comment / Catchup all unread comments User Account Info | Logout | XML/Pilot/etc versions | Long version (with comments) | Weblog archives | Site Map | | Browse Topics

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.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Software Engineering Work, productivity and environment Television Artificial Intelligence ]

comments in descending chronological order (reverse):

#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.

Comment policy

We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine, if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave such ridicule in place.


Flutterby™ is a trademark claimed by

Dan Lyke
for the web publications at www.flutterby.com and www.flutterby.net.