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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    18 days ago

    Copilot was worse than useless in my situation. My team tested it out and immediately were losing productivity due to it. Terrible autocomplete is worse than just jumping over to ChatGPT or Claude when we actually need help. It literally was so bad we all overwhelmingly said “no, but can we get something like <literally any competitor> please”.