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Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Here's How We Lie With Statistics | Jadarma's Blog (2024-11-20) (jadarma.github.io)
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Counter article: https://jadarma.github.io/blog/posts/2024/11/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality-heres-how-we-lie-with-statistics/ about the original statistics article from Github this talk and blog post is about: https://github.blog/news-insights/research/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality-heres-what-the-data-says/

If you rather like a reactionary video commentary to the article from The Primeagen: https://youtu.be/IxYN7DKefmI or watch on Invidious, a privacy focused web YouTube client without using YouTube directly: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IxYN7DKefmI

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

A commercial no-brainer means it makes such financial sense that even someone with no brain would make the same decision.
For $100/year subscription, it has to save something like 2 hours of dev time per a year for it to make financial sense.

It doesn't mean that anyone gets to switch off their brain