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New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' (visualstudiomagazine.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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Interesting to see the benefits and drawbacks called out.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but by generating with AI you're incentivized to skip that initial research stage into your own code base, leading you to completely miss opportunities for consolidation or reuse