Comment by sethammons

21 days ago

textbook survivorship bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

every bullet hole in that plane is the 1k PRs contributed by copilot. The missing dots, and whole missing planes, are unaccounted for. Ie, "ai ruined my morning"

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n2d4  21 days ago

It's not survivorship bias. Survivorship bias would be if you made any conclusions from the 1000 merged PRs (eg. "90% of all merged PRs did not get reverted"). But simply stating the number of PRs is not that.

  • tines  21 days ago

    As with all good marketing, the conclusions omitted and implied, no?

    • n2d4  21 days ago

      The implied conclusion ("Copilot made 1000 changes to the codebase") is also not survivorship bias.

      By that logic, literally every statement would be survivorship bias.

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  • krainboltgreene  20 days ago

    Given that Github is continuing with the product and marketing to us it feels sufficient to count that as a conclusion.