If software development were a race, does AI win every time? #Software #AI
Scott Logic has undertaken multiple experiments to better understand the impact of GenerativeAI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot) on developer productivity. Quantitative results show a 37% improvement in productivity (speed), however, the result is a misrepresentation of what it means to be productive as a developer.
However, software development isn’t a race.
Measuring the speed at which a developer completes a programming task is very one-dimensional. In practice, the quality of code produced (however you seek to define it) is just as important, if not more so, than the speed at which it was written. Unfortunately there is no widely-acknowledged industry-standard metric for measuring software quality; instead, we measure indirectly across a vast number of factors (unit tests coverage, manual code review, linting checks, defect rates, to name just a few).
The result presented here, that GenAI tools make you 37% faster, is true, within a contrived example. Our hope is that this grabs your attention, but it is not a result that should be parroted without context!
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