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episode 683: Is AI making your code worse?
GitClear is a developer-friendly code review tool that aims to deliver higher developer satisfaction and faster releases. Check out their blog or find them on GitHub.
GitClear’s research focuses on how AI code-gen tools have impacted code quality (and not in a good way).
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Background of the Research
06:09 Business Model of GitClear
09:46 Copy Pasted Code
10:26 Churn Code
12:21 Code Readability
14:12 Code Suggestions and Auto-Completion
16:34 Drop in Moved Code
23:18 Larger Token Windows
26:31 Improving Gen AI
28:46 Conclusion