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.

  • Corridor8031@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I think maybe a good comparison is to written papers/ assignments. It can generate those just like it can generate code.

    But it is not about the words themself, but about the content.