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Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help by smoe on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:22PM (#29017839)
That doesn't seem to be the claim. They say one third was written with AI help.

Doesn't say how much of the new code was generated by Copilot, just that it was used in the process of writing it.

edit: I read the article wrong, skimming it. I understood it as 30% of new code written by GitHub engineers uses AI help, which sounds much more reasonable.

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Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help by minimaxir on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:27PM (#29017916)
Even if you do the "% of users using Copilot" approach, Copilot was limited to both Visual Studio Code (until today) and an invitation-only program.

The fact that the combo reached 30% of newly generated code doesn't make sense.

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Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help by ghaff on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:45PM (#29018181)
The specific claim in the video was % of code being written by early adopters. I can't tell from the video how "early adopters" was defined or how they measured % of code so it's ambiguous. But story should have made it clear this isn't a percentage of all new code.
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Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help by minimaxir on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:52PM (#29018266)
I hadn't seen the video quote until it was posted above: I assume "early adopters" is those who were accepted into the program and installed it, but yes it's still ambigious.
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Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help by uberman on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:38PM (#29018066)
Ya, it is clearly a lie or the journalist was clueless
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Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help by Bancakes on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:41PM (#29018116)
Yep! I was just watching how clang-tidy can now automatically apply code fixes in realtime. Is this AI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfYMKOMc738

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Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help by lhorie on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:31PM (#29017969)
I mean, Google search uses AI, and developers use Google to find things, so technically you could say the vast majority of code is written with "AI help", but that's not exactly a noteworthy observation to make...
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