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.

I’m in the same reality as you, but usually I don’t bother to write too much about it on lemmy - people here don’t seem to appreciate different opinions on AI. But you’re not the only one :)