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New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' (visualstudiomagazine.com)

submitted 9 months ago by walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz to c/programming@programming.dev

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Interesting to see the benefits and drawbacks called out.

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[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought we solved the boilerplate issue with templates and snippets like 30 years ago.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago

Not only that, but we solved it in a deterministic manner. The way LLMs go about it, by picking something they think sort of maybe looks like the right thing is more bother than it's worth.