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.

  • ddhEnglish
    11·
    7 天前

    The biggest value I get from AI in this space is when I get handed a pile of spagehtti and ask for an initial overview.

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 天前

      I thought that as well and got some code from someone that left the company and asked it to comment it.

      It did the obvious “x= 5 // assign 5 to x” crap comments and then it got to the actually confusing part and just skipped that mess entirely…