Mixed
In most of those early cases we ended up with worse code than if it had been written by humans, but we learned a ton
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In the thread “Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane”, replying to this comment
Helped: Calibrating expectations and understanding tool limits through testing.
Got in the way: Initial AI-generated code was worse than human-written code.
… We wanted to calibrate our expectations and better understand the limits, strengths and weaknesses of these new tools we wanted to adopt. In most of those early cases we ended up with worse code than if it had been written by humans, but we learned a ton. We can also clearly see how much better things have gotten over time, since we have that benchmark to look back on.