Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
That means their metrics suck.
Because I definitely gain a lot as a programmer, even though it doesn't necessarily translate into measurable profit for my company.
I do spend my brain less on grindy boring shit and more on crafting creative solutions to interesting problems. Which in turn makes me quite happy - a HUGE benefit.
The study measured pull request (PR) cycle time, or the time to merge code into a repository, and PR throughput, the number of pull requests merged. It found no significant improvements for developers using Copilot.
Yeah doesn't seem like the best measurements.
Been coding up a little dashboard in the last week, and it's been making me around 30% more efficient.
And you are right, it's mostly taking away the boring parts, which is awesome.
But would you pay for it?
My employer's paying for my access, and I only find it a bit useful here and there
Maybe my company gets a great discount or something, but if they would pay me the subscription cost to give up Copilot, I wouldn't miss it
I am paying for it.
Don't know why you were down dooted, that's absolutely true and exactly how I feel, and how everyone I've talked to about copilot feels.