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Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming (www.darrenhorrocks.co.uk)
submitted 2 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/programming@programming.dev
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Over the past few years, the evolution of AI-driven tools like GitHub’s Copilot and other large language models (LLMs) has promised to revolutionise programming. By leveraging deep learning, these tools can generate code, suggest solutions, and even troubleshoot issues in real-time, saving developers hours of work. While these tools have obvious benefits in terms of productivity, there’s a growing concern that they may also have unintended consequences on the quality and skillset of programmers.

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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 42 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I was hoping this might start with some actual evidence that programmers are in fact getting worse. Nope, just a single sentence mentioning "growing concern", followed by paragraphs and paragraphs of pontification.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly what I suspected. How could you even truly prove such a thing

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

It's probably not "provable" one way or the other, but I'd like to see more empirical studies in general within the software industry, and this seems like a fruitful subject for that.

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