Linux

5502 readers

177 users here now

A community for everything relating to the linux operating system

Also check out [email protected]

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon

anzo

dwraf_of_ignorance

Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Here's How We Lie With Statistics | Jadarma's Blog (2024-11-20) (jadarma.github.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/linux

20 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

In its current state I don’t think learning programming with the help of AI will be much different. For that AI makes too many mistakes. You have to check its grunt work output (which is still faster than writing it yourself). You also cannot trust its explanations, because it hallucinates too often. AI can nudge you in the right direction and can mostly help you, but often enough it can’t and you’ll have to research yourself. @[email protected]’s ‘idiot friend’ metaphor fits very well.