The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

“No Duh,” say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

  • elbiter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    AI coding is the stupidest thing I’ve seen since someone decided it was a good idea to measure the code by the amount of lines written.

    • Slotos@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      It did solve my impostor syndrome though. Turns out a bunch of people I saw to be my betters were faking it all along.

    • ellohir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      More code is better, obviously! Why else would a website to see a restaurant menu be 80Mb? It’s all that good, excellent code.