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Counter article: https://jadarma.github.io/blog/posts/2024/11/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality-heres-how-we-lie-with-statistics/ about the original statistics article from Github this talk and blog post is about: https://github.blog/news-insights/research/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality-heres-what-the-data-says/

If you rather like a reactionary video commentary to the article from The Primeagen: https://youtu.be/IxYN7DKefmI or watch on Invidious, a privacy focused web YouTube client without using YouTube directly: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IxYN7DKefmI

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It annoys me so much, too, that Microsoft keeps on advertising with those fictitious numbers, despite multiple studies showing very different results. At some point, it's just misleading advertising, which is illegal where I live.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Because its a "study" and "statistics" and not an "advertisement", it does not fall under the laws of ads I assume. And why too many take this seriously, because it presents numbers... Microsoft is not the only company doing this, but one of the strongest companies to fight against. It's actually depressing.