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AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds (www.techspot.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's a glorified autocorrect. Using it for anything else and expecting magic is an interesting idea. I'm not sure what folks are expecting there.

  • It suggests variables and function names I was already going to type more accurately. Better, it suggests ones even when I cannot remember the name because i got stumped trying to remember.
  • It fills in basic control structures and functions more effectively than the IDE's completion templates.
  • It provides a decent starting point for both comments and documentation (the hard part). Meaning my code actually has comments and documentation. Regularly!

But I don't ask it to explain things or generate algorithms willy nilly. I don't expect or try to have it do something that's not more than simply auto-completion.

I honestly like it, even if I strongly dislike the use of AI elsewhere. It's working in this area for me.

[โ€“] Zannsolo 1 points 2 months ago

I haven't used the in IDE stuff, but the best use case I've had was asking bing chat for help with xml mappings for nhibernate with a wonky table structure when I had to work with some legacy code. The nhibernate documentation is terrible.

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