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The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot

7 points · 10 comments · fscaramuzza

  1. aurareturn · · focus · HN ↗
    Note the timelines of this study:

    4/2024: Baseline metrics

    8/2024: Participants given Github Copilot licenses

    11/2024: Conducted surveys, 261 people invited and 97 responded in survey

    9/2026: Study published

    1. pu_pe · · focus · HN ↗
      AI moves too fast for traditional academic pace. During peer review alone, another generation of models comes along and might obsolete your findings. Though, in this case, I am not sure that Github Copilot specifically has improved that much in the meantime.
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