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.

  • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    From my experience, AI just seems to be a lesson in overfitment. You can’t use it to do things nobody has done before. Furthermore, you only really get good responses from prompts related to Javascript