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.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    1 day ago

    And many between “seniour developers everywhere” and “a layman who never wrote code in his life”.

    Like me, I’m saying it too. A big ol “No duh”.

    Disbelieve the hype.