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		godelski on Dec 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Study finds AI assistants help developers produce ... There's probably a sampling bias for SO that means higher quality than the average code from GitHub (what it was trained on).

klyrs on Dec 26, 2022 [–]

I frequently click through random people's repos when they interact with the ones I'm interested in. I see lots of students who are apparently required to do their homework on github. Which is good! But if that's what's feeding the beast... woof.

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