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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.
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 :)
Replying to @unpossum@sh.itjust.works
Outrage is always louder than agreement. If 1% of people hate a thing, but they really hate it, there’ll be 10 articles about how it’s bad and one article about how it’s good, because something being good doesn’t get clicks. The people who find it useful or good or even are just fine with it just get on with their lives.