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.

  • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Even that description is vastly overselling it’s usefulness. Every time someone says it’s like a junior dev I just sigh, because literally the only reason I like junior devs is because they turn into not junior devs. Never once has assigning something to a junior dev made my job easier. The entire goal is to train them to the point they make PRs that I don’t have to walk them through reworking.