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.

  • Lembot_0004@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Well, don’t use it with new, poorly documented libraries. That is a common sense rule: use the tool where it is useful.

    Somehow many LLM criticizers just claim that LLMs are shit because they can’t autonomously write code. Yes, they can’t. But they can do many other useful things.