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The outcome they are measuring is "perceived productivity", which seems pretty weak sauce to me. Here, we investigate whether usage measurements of developer i

The outcome they are measuring is "perceived productivity", which seems pretty weak sauce to me. Here, we investigate whether usage measurements of developer interactions with GitHub Copilot can predict perceived productivity as reported by developers. And they use the "actual activity" to predict this perceived productivity.

nicklecompte 3y ago
To be fair, measuring software reliability / worker productivity like we do other industrial products was an intractably difficult problem long before Copilot showed up :)