> The observations made by this article are self-evident to those working in industries that have adopted copilot I work in such an industry and it's certainly

> The observations made by this article are self-evident to those working in industries that have adopted copilot I work in such an industry and it's certainly not "self-evident". Clearly it's also not self-evident to many other people commenting on this post. > However, in this case there is empirical evidence copilot makes code quality worse: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot... One study does not prove anything, although at least it is _some_ evidence. But other studies linked in that very article show opposite results. To be clear I don't know if LLMs are better or not for developer productivity. I think it's too early to tell. But given that people, in general, are prone to conservatism, combined with the fact that past developer tooling enhancements have not caused the negative outcomes that many people at the time predicted they would cause, leads me to believe LLMs will probably be a positive change.