GitHub Copilot is an incredibly limited tool compared to any real harness, and I'm so tired about all of these studies that claim a lack of efficiency while at the same time doing everything in their power to shoot themselves in the foot.

Also, it's insane to me that this whole article has been written without specifying anywhere the models being used.

Like, of course you're not gonna be productive if all you have is Sonnet 4.6???

Note the timelines of this study:

4/2024: Baseline metrics

8/2024: Participants given Github Copilot licenses

11/2024: Conducted surveys, 261 people invited and 97 responded in survey

9/2026: Study published