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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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[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the AI is creating the code, it is up to it to keep itself DRY

[โ€“] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Well that means it's up to us to make it recognize non-DRY code and teach it to refactor while remaining coherent forever and ever, or else we'll have to parachute into lands of alien code and try to figure out something nobody wrote and nobody understands.