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Vibe Coding mit KI-Programmierhilfen in Visual Studio Code ausprobiert.
Ich habe zwei KI-Assistenzen für die direkte Integration in VSCode getestet, ob sie meine Erwartungen erfüllen. Welche Lösung wirklich hilft, die Arbeit effizienter zu gestalten, zeigt sich erst beim Praxistest. Der Einsatz lohnt sich, doch nicht jedes Tool spielte so mit, wie ich es mir gewünscht hatte.

Visual Studio Code mit KI erweitern: Codex vs. GitHub Copilot
Erfahre, wie du Visual Studio Code mit GitHub Copilot und KI-Agenten effizient einrichtest und optimal nutzt – auch kostenlos!

A reference to this GitHub blog post has come at me a few different ways, eg:
https://bsky.app/profile/longtail.news/post/3m2cfqbihhq2c
But that URL is 404:

Please don't upload my code on GitHub
This is a call to free/libre and open source software developers to not upload the work of others to GitHub.
🚫 #NoGitHub

Ugh.. Just noticed some new #Copilot settings appearing in #Github, and one of them was giving it access to all repositories 😡 just like.. by default
This is in Settings > Copilot > coding agent
I have already set copilot "visibility" as "Disabled" but is that f…

Developer Productivity With and Without GitHub Copilot: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Case Study
Viktoria Stray, Elias Goldmann Brandtz{\ae}g, Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, Astri Barbala, Nils Brede Moe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20353

Developer Productivity With and Without GitHub Copilot: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Case Study
This study investigates the real-world impact of the generative AI (GenAI) tool GitHub Copilot on developer activity and perceived productivity. We conducted a mixed-methods case study in NAV IT, a large public sector agile organization. We analyzed 26,317 unique non-merge commits from 703 of NAV IT's GitHub repositories over a two-year period, focusing on commit-based activity metrics from 25 Copilot users and 14 non-users. The analysis was complemented by survey responses on their roles and p…

The powers that be have turned on Github Copilot for our account at work. It's worth every penny.
#AI #LLM #Copilot #Github

AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
Feiyang (Amber), Xu, Poonacha K. Medappa, Murat M. Tunc, Martijn Vroegindeweij, Jan C. Fransoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10165

AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
Generative AI solutions like GitHub Copilot have been shown to increase the productivity of software developers. Yet prior work remains unclear on the quality of code produced and the challenges of maintaining it in software projects. If quality declines as volume grows, experienced developers face increased workloads reviewing and reworking code from less-experienced contributors. We analyze developer activity in Open Source Software (OSS) projects following the introduction of GitHub Copilot.…

Just today, I tried asking GitHub Copilot to fix a non-existing bug in a Hugo website (so, HTML, CSS, toml: no archaic file formats).
It happily hallucinated not recognizing that there was nog bug, proposing CSS changes that didn’t do anything useful (because no bug, remember!).
#genAIgoingGreat

Can You Trust Your Copilot? A Privacy Scorecard for AI Coding Assistants
Amir AL-Maamari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20388 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20388

Can You Trust Your Copilot? A Privacy Scorecard for AI Coding Assistants
The rapid integration of AI-powered coding assistants into developer workflows has raised significant privacy and trust concerns. As developers entrust proprietary code to services like OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and GitHub Copilot, the unclear data handling practices of these tools create security and compliance risks. This paper addresses this challenge by introducing and applying a novel, expert-validated privacy scorecard. The methodology involves a detailed analysis of four document ty…

Every friggin' day on here. "hey my company is hiring!"
I look at the job posting and...

I'm so glad Copilot-generated commit messages are an opt-out feature on GitHub. I've always wanted to start typing and then have my stuff completely obliterated by sluggish LLM slop I didn't ask for.

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Daniele Bifolco, Guido Annicchiarico, Pierluigi Barbiero, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fiorella Zampetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01077

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in software development tasks nowadays. Unlike reusing code taken from the Web, for LLMs' generated code, developers are concerned about its lack of trustworthiness and possible copyright or licensing violations, due to the lack of code provenance information. This paper proposes CodeGenLink, a GitHub CoPilot extension for Visual Studio Code aimed at (i) suggesting links containing code very similar to automatically generated code, and (ii) whenever …