GitHub Copilot Research Finds "Downward Pressure on Code Quality"

Choice quotes from this Copilot research on GitHub:

• using Copilot is strongly correlated with mistake code being pushed to the repo


• current implementation of AI Assistants discourages code reuse


• we have entered an era where code lines are being added faster than ever before. The better question for 2024: who’s on the hook to clean up the mess afterward


• code generated during 2023 more resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness of the repos visited

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

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