Novices performed better and reported lower workload with GitHub Copilot than with human partners, but human partners produced more positive emotions and a smaller drop in retest performance after one week.
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Novice programmers completed more tasks with lower workload using GitHub Copilot versus a human partner, but reported significantly more positive and arousing emotions with the human teammate.
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