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/

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

It annoys me so much, too, that Microsoft keeps on advertising with those fictitious numbers, despite multiple studies showing very different results. At some point, it's just misleading advertising, which is illegal where I live.

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Because its a "study" and "statistics" and not an "advertisement", it does not fall under the laws of ads I assume. And why too many take this seriously, because it presents numbers... Microsoft is not the only company doing this, but one of the strongest companies to fight against. It's actually depressing.

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