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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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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

In its current state I don’t think learning programming with the help of AI will be much different. For that AI makes too many mistakes. You have to check its grunt work output (which is still faster than writing it yourself). You also cannot trust its explanations, because it hallucinates too often. AI can nudge you in the right direction and can mostly help you, but often enough it can’t and you’ll have to research yourself. @FizzyOrange@programming.dev’s ‘idiot friend’ metaphor fits very well.