Coding on Copilot: 2023 Data Suggests Downward Pressure on Code Quality (incl 2024 projections)
Including 2024 projections for specific code reuse
GitHub and other sources have reported more than 50% of developers
adopting AI Assisted-development during 2023. What these sources haven't reported is
how the composition of code changes when AI is used.
We examine 4 years worth of data, encompassing more than 150m changed lines of
code, to determine how AI Assistants influence the quality of code being written. We find a significant
uptick in churn code, and a concerning decrease in code reuse...
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