GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump

AI generated code is the new plastic... GitHub is the Pacific Garbage patch.

> AI users were actually 19% slower, but they thought they were 20% faster.

I don't know who made those numbers up, but for me... I can almost certainly guarantuee, I have never been so relaxed before. Doing multiple paid projects simultaneously due to AI, still leaning back, customer's are happy. I can confidently say: if you know how to leverage it properly, you can be both more efficient and relaxed at the same time. I'd also argue, if you use a combination of SOTA models to code and review and put in some own thoughts, too, then code is also GG.

I think that's one of the reasons why VSCode adds AI as coauthor by default on commits when GitHub Copilot was used. To try to tag AI commits in an attempt to help filter that out in model training.

Controversial default to say the least.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

I tend to agree with the title but the content seems both AI generated and somewhat dated. The feels 20% faster but actually 19% slower I believe is a few years old at this point. I'm a skeptical as the next but I think it would hard to find a metric on which modern LLMs make devs "19% slower".

It's engagement bait and marketing blogposts like this should be banned on HN.