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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.
They’re probably talking about the free version of gemini or something.
Anthropic claims that Fable has low low low hallucination rate of just 40%.
LLMs outputting code solving this exact task is a compound function of luck, with non determined a priori chance of success and unknown a priori cost.
This is my main disappointment with agentic coding. Prompting is fine, quality assurance is there from the start. Greenfield, couldn’t care less. Established enterprise code? This is a minefield.
If the tokens were 10 to 100 times cheaper, then it would be a maybe.
I also hate how it makes half of my senior engineers dumber.
I hate AI too but that doesn’t change how impressive the results can be. Once they figure out analog computing with memristors cost isn’t going to be nearly the issue it is today.
I hate AI too
? Never said that.
My apologies. I hate that it makes people stupid too.