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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
www.zdnet.com/article/80-of-developers-find-ai-coding-more-addictive-than-helpful/
So my preferred agent atm is GitHub Copilot as a jetbrains plugin. The other day when GitHub had a 6 hour outage and I couldn’t log in, my first instinct was “guess I can’t work today”. I realized almost immediately how fucking dumb that initial thought was. Like I had forgotten that I’ve been doing this for over 20 years, and around 17 of those with no AI whatsoever.
Was I slower that day? Yes absolutely. Was I incapable? Not at all.
I wouldn’t want to do without it, because on the positive side it has helped me discover libraries and tools I had no idea existed, and it’s made me a better archtitect. But, maybe we should still actually touch the code a little.
I got a job once at a video processing software company, camera streams etc. The tasks there involved a lot of reverse engineering of under or undocumented things, very slow - I felt like I was getting 2-3 hours of “accomplishment” accomplished on a typical week there, very demoralizing, but they swore that’s how it always is there and I’m actually unusually quick at getting things done… IDK, I got a better offer and was out of there to a more productive job fairly quickly.