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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/
Well, yeah…
Most of the time it doesn’t work, rarely it does.
Intermittent rewards are what we’re wired for. That’s why random rewards/acknowledgment tickle our brains more than standard rewards we know are coming.
That’s the reason there’s such a big push “to just try it”.
It’s the same strategy the first crack dealers used
It feels so weird to read lemmy, as if I’m living in a different reality. To me, most of the time an agent can oneshot a ticket (if it has a good, non-vague description) or at least do 80-90% that can be fixed with several changes or prompts, and only odd tasks need more manual investigations than that.
Surely you still need a dev oversight and someone needs to do tech plans & lead the projects, but that’s not like anything people experience here.
Yeah 100%, an agent failing at what I want it to do is extremely rare now, like, a 1% chance at most, and it’s usually easily fixed. I think most people with this experience aren’t developers at all in a professional sense and therefore don’t have the oversight to write a prompt properly with well defined goals and scope, or they’re using the free version or something.
The study methodology is also extremely dubious to boot. This is just getting clicks due to pure anti-ai sentiment. I have my own issues with AI too, but this is just classic internet clickbait.