GenAI tools don't increase coding efficiency

While AI is often touted as being the solution for all kinds of tasks, when it comes to developing software it seems that it may not always be improving things. A new study from Uplevel suggests that today's GenAI-based developer tools don't tend to increase coding efficiency and can actually increase bug rates. The research was conducted by Uplevel Data Labs, Uplevel's data science arm. It examined a sample of 800 software developers on large engineering teams whose organizations had adopted Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, a GenAI-based coding assistant and developer tool. It finds developers with Copilot did not see an… [Continue Reading]