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“Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel”

study referenced: Can GenAI Actually Improve Developer Productivity? (requires email)

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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Not only making things available to the masses, I think "democratizing" would be a better word for that intent.

"Weaponizing" something like this specifically has a connotation of danger or harm to some (unspecified) target.

In this context of copy/pasting stackoverflow answers without understanding them (a practice Considered Harmful), it was previously something that required intent to do. Now your editor will instantly suggest solutions to you and all you have to do is press the tab key to accept unknown lines of code.