News New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' New research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development cites some adverse results. The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code compared to what would have been written by a human. In other words: "Is it more similar to the careful, refined contributions of a Senior Developer, or more akin to the disjointed work of a sho...