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.

  • vividspecter@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    23 days ago

    Think this one needs a bimodal curve with the two peaks representing the “caught up in the hype” average coder and the realistic average coder.