LeadDev New York 2024

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Increasing Code Habitability using AI Coding Assistants

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How AI Coding Assistants Improve Code Habitability

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Will GenAI save us from non-habitable code or cause it to proliferate? It turns out that there is a path to habitable code and, if used appropriately, AI coding assistants can help get us there.

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Studies

• Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness, 2024 (GitHub Next research findings)

• Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2024

• The state of open source software, 2023 (GitHub Octoverse)

References

• The Oregon Experiment, 1975 by Christopher Alexander

• Patterns of Software, 1996 by Peter Gabriel

• Livable Code, 2017 by Sarah Mei

• Test Desiderata, 2019 by Kent Beck

• CUPID for Joyful Coding, 2022 by Dan North