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Link: https://leaddev.com/velocity/ai-doesnt-make-devs-as-productive-as-they-think-study-finds
TLDR: A new study found that using AI to help code slowed participants by 19% despite participants believing it would increase their speed by 25%. Companies with heavy investments in AI have said the study was baseless. (It's not in this story, but another story I read about the same study said mistakes with AI were significantly higher, too).
If you spend billions of dollars on something that doesn't work, you're going to manufacture a demand for it and pretend it does work. Otherwise, you have to admit you blew a lot of money and fired a lot of people for nothing. There are very niche applications where AI is useful. There are not enough applications to warrant the level of investment and reliance currently seen in it. This whole thing reminds me of the dot com bust in the 2000s. I just hope the bubble pops soon.
RElGNMAN
So basically... garbage in, garbage out.
Redyls
spent years coding. and a few years not. tried to get back into it recently. was picking it back up fine. AI did help with that and some other things but it was very stupid in which ways it was operating. it was very direct in its "help" and not one bit of comprehensiveness beyond that. i also felt it was very hit and miss with a lean toward the miss. even with my now lacking skills i could do what i wanted faster even with having to relook stuff up. i found more help from it as a search feature
evilspock
Professional coder here.
For a trained professional, AI makes the simple things simpler and faster. I can set up boilerplate and a skeleton of something simple in minutes.
But for the other 95% of my work, it's of minimal value.
What I see happening is people keep leaning on the AI far past where it's of any real utility, and constantly correcting it or following it down a hallucinated rabbit hole slows you down.
And for beginners, it's harder to recognize the tipping point.
ValhallaPaperBoy
This study was completed using AI.
OrkenMork
I'm not a coder...but I've written plenty of Powershell scripts to get tasks completed. I tried to use AI to write Powershell scripts (the company I worked for used CoPilot), The script usually wouldn't run without some tweaking...and the efficiency of the script is nonexistent. Running the script as is would be very expensive against cloud services. What I *DID* find AI is good for is getting started! It can get the beginning of the script working and it can help you create a shell to tweak
phant0mfoxes
And yet here we are (top and bottom headlines). It's being rammed into every crevice of our lives even though very few people want it and even less *need* it
SmellingMistake
No shit.
lightfoot2
Too late. Companies now demand triple the productivity from each programmer, making that happen is your problem. (/sad)
solrev
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UnaChronicler
Preach brother
Luvlyquants
Shocked! All AI CEOs who are trying to sell their products are lying! shocked!
SpartaWolf117
i don't know much about coding, but I imagine all the time saved by ai writing code is wasted by having to go in and fix it
AndroidSoul
The problem is that when you write code, you know what each bit you write is supposed to do and how. With ai, before you can even fix the broken code, you've got to figure out how it was trying to do something before you can even start to fix the problem. And since ai likely writes code like a drunk intern, that's not easy
JaromirAzarov
This. Writing the code so that it basically works in the first place doesn't take that much time, but improving it so much that it works reliably and is also able to handle unexpected situations is a whole different story.