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.

  • IceHouse@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I do a lot of scripting for cloud infrastructure deployments and linux/windows basic scripting and the bing chat is great for banging out 5 liners in 1 second that would take me an hour even after multiple decades of being an admin.

    Anything more complex it is useless for so it is limited but nice to have.