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by runlevel1 736 days ago
I accept a lot of wrong suggestions because they look close enough that it's quicker for me to fix than it is to write the whole thing out from scratch. Which, IIUC, their metric captures:

> Continued increase of the fraction of code created with AI assistance via code completion, defined as the number of accepted characters from AI-based suggestions divided by the sum of manually typed characters and accepted characters from AI-based suggestions. Notably, characters from copy-pastes are not included in the denominator.

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As someone who is generally pro-AI coding tools, I do the same. However sometimes it winds up taking me so much effort to fix the mistakes that it'd have been faster to do it myself. I often wonder if I'm seeing a net positive effort gain over time, I *think* so, but it's hard to measure.