The study tracked around 800 developers, comparing their output with and without GitHub’s Copilot coding assistant over three-month periods. Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request cycle time and throughput, Uplevel found no meaningful improvements for those using Copilot.
Exactly, I’ve found them most useful to either summarize a text you feed it, or do broad ‘google like’ queries. I don’t trust it with anything beyond that