New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' - eviltoast

Interesting to see the benefits and drawbacks called out.

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    10 months ago

    Makes sense, even if it’s not good practice.

    It is really useful for hobby projects! I needed a recursive function to find a path between two nodes in a graph and it wrote me something that worked with my data in a few seconds, saved a bit of time