What’s Missing With AI-Generated Code? Refactoring

Last month, GitClear published an analysis of 211 million lines of code in its AI Copilot Code Quality report. One of the key findings is that refactoring signals are crashing while code duplication and churn is increasing. In fact, 2024 is the first year when the introduction of repeated code is greater than refactoring activity.

The trend is attributed to the rise in AI coding assistants, and if it continues, we could be heading toward a software crisis.

The Race To Adopt AI

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