Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

“Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel”

study referenced: Can GenAI Actually Improve Developer Productivity? (requires email)

  • hex@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Based take. Totally agree. Have faced both sides, where it helps with silly errors on new languages, and where it is absolutely incapable of debugging a slightly more complex issue. It’s useful, but only for certain tasks.