When GitHub Copilot suggests your next line of code, does it matter whether your variables are named "current_temperature" or just "x"?
I ran an experiment to find out, testing 8 different AI models on 500 Python code samples across 7 naming styles. The results suggest that descriptive variable names do help AI code completion.
I ran an experiment to find out, testing 8 different AI models on 500 Python code samples across 7 naming styles. The results suggest that descriptive variable names do help AI code completion.
Full paper: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7180885/v1