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

Interesting to see the benefits and drawbacks called out.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Well that means it’s up to us to make it recognize non-DRY code and teach it to refactor while remaining coherent forever and ever, or else we’ll have to parachute into lands of alien code and try to figure out something nobody wrote and nobody understands.