by koliber on 12/3/23, 7:39 PM
I wonder if the 50% drop was because developers were half as effective without copilot. Or was it because they have spent half of the day looking for ways to bypass the block while having angry conversations with colleagues, and therefore, were not coding.
by leadingthenet on 12/3/23, 7:42 PM
I was interested to see how it affected them in the medium-term, including the VPN/Tor usage, but the data range seems extremely short, a few days before the ban and a few after. Also doesn’t seem to account for any other events taking place in and around that time, or that it’s a weekend and so on.
Doesn’t really say much, imo.
by boringuser2 on 12/3/23, 7:39 PM
The idea that aggregate developer output is 50% improved by the simple existence of transformers seems to not pass my sniff test.
I haven't seen any of my coworkers improve their output in the past x years.
by Filligree on 12/3/23, 7:43 PM
The link says nothing about Copilot, this title is not just editorialised but wrong.
by phreeza on 12/3/23, 8:31 PM
@dang: this post is marked as flagged at the moment, but I don't think it should be? Except maybe for the editorialized title, but that doesn't seem super bad.
by boxed on 12/3/23, 7:40 PM
> Release event
I don't understand this. Did they measure the number of releases in the GitHub "releases" feature?
by dadadad100 on 12/3/23, 6:53 PM
By turning off access to GPTs the Italian government showed how their country’s developers felt about copilot