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.

  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Similarly I find it very useful for if I’ve written a tool script and really don’t want to write the command line interface for it.

    “Here’s a well-documented function - write an argparser for it”

    …then I fix its rubbish assumptions and mistakes. It’s probably not drastically quicker but it doesn’t require as much effort from me, meaning I can go harder on the actual function (rather than keeping some effort in reserve to get over the final hump).