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.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    You mean relying blindly on a statistical prediction engine to attempt to produce sophisticated software without any understanding of the underlying principles or concepts doesn’t magically replace years of actual study and real-world experience?

    But trust me, bro, the singularity is imminent, LLMs are the future of human evolution, true AGI is nigh!

    I can’t wait for this idiotic “AI” bubble to burst.