"'AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited.' ... That serves as a counte

"'AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited.' ... That serves as a counterpoint to findings of some other studies, including one from GitHub in 2022 that found, for one thing: "developers who used GitHub Copilot completed the task significantly faster -- 55 percent faster than the developers who didn't use GitHub Copilot." These two observations aren't mutually exclusive. DRY-ness comes from a holistic understsanding of a system; you get similar results when you task a junior developer with little deep knowledge of a novel codebase with solving a problem and don't give them enough oversight; they'll tend to bull-rush through coding a solution with little-to-no knowledge of how the solution can be built out of the parts already existing in the codebase.