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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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

He obviously hasn't. This is one of those things where some people feel threatened by something, haven't used it, and feel like they can comment based on how they imagine it is.

Reminds me of when the iPhone came out. You had all sorts of nonsense criticism of it from people that had clearly never even touched one.

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