The Thievery of GitHub Copilot
<p>benefits of its thievery from the programmer’s perspective: 74% say they focus on more satisfying tasks, 88% feel more productive and 96% are faster with repetitive tasks. There’s no third-party independent vetting of this “research” so imho, it’s a public relations blitz. When you dig deeper on their evaluation, the GitHub Copilot adoption is alarming — “users accepted on average 26% of all completions shown by GitHub Copilot. We also found that on average more than 27% of developers’ code files were generated by GitHub Copilot, and in certain languages like Python that goes up to 40%.”</p>
<p>So let’s translate this more concretely: at least 1 in 4 pieces of code is stolen, of those who use GitHub Copilot. Therefore, the code they’re now creating is mediocre and equates to solid C letter grade (not grade A work), if the code was done entirely by the…</p>
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