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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/
Replying to @Nobody_Special@piefed.social
The only utility I’ve had with it is as a slightly more fancy document search. “Give me the syntax for [one line of code I want but can’t remember]” or “Give me the syntax to do a c# style .select() call in [language I am less familiar with]”
And then I look at the docs and actually put the effort into understanding how the fuck things work.
Using it for anything more than that is a mistake. You still need to understand the context of what it is you’re doing, you still need to think.
You’ve never tried just giving it the task you did to see how it did?
I hate doing a lot of code review all at once, and AI vomits a lot of code. Hopefully the mistake is obviously big and up front, but all too often the mistake dwells in the details that I would likely be too tired to notice after a lot of plausible code.
With human code to review at least the volume is generally workable and when it’s wrong, it tends to be more obviously wrong. A human that takes care of very detailed facets with care inspires trust in their thoroughness, but codegen looks that way without the thorough consideration.