A Survey Assessing Github Copilot

In this episode, we are joined by Jenny Liang, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studies the usability of code generation tools. She discusses her recent survey on the usability of AI programming assistants.

Jenny discussed the method she used to gather people to complete her survey. She also shared some questions in her survey alongside vital takeaways. She shared the major reasons for developers not wanting to use code-generation tools. She stressed that the code-generation tools might access the software developers' in-house code, which is intellectual property.

Learn more about Jenny Liang via https://jennyliang.me/

Guest

Jenny Liang: Jenny Liang is a second year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Dr. Brad A. Myers. Jenny is broadly interested in research at the intersections of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and natural language processing. She's currently studying methods to improve developers' interactions with code generation tools.