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.

  • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request cycle time and throughput, Uplevel found no meaningful improvements for those using Copilot.

    This assumes I’m going to dedicate my increased productivity to my employer. I’m still at the same level of productivity but personally my effort needed for specific tasks has dropped a lot meaning more free time for me.