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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds (futurism.com)
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"No Duh," say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

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[–] 71 points 1 year ago (15 children)

“No Duh,” say senior developers everywhere.

I'm so glad this was your first line in the post

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    No duh, says a layman who never wrote code in his life.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Oddly enough, my grasp of coding is probably the same as the guy in the middle but I still know that LLM generated code is garbage.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Yeah, I actually considered putting the same text on all 3, but we gotta put the idiots that think it's great somewhere! Maybe I should have put it with the dumbest guy instead.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That's kinda wrong though. I've seen llm's write pretty good code, in some cases even doing something clever I hadn't thought of.

    You should treat it as any junior though, and read the code changes and give feedback if needed.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thing is both statements can be true.

    Used appropriately and in the right context, LLMs can accelerate some select work.

    But the hype level is 'human replacement is here (or imminent, depending on if the company thinks the audience is willing to believe yet or not)'. Recently Anthropic suggested someone could just type 'make a slack clone' and it'll all be done and perfect.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This. Like with any tool you have to learn how and when to use it. I've started to get the hang of what tasks it improves but I don't think I've regained the hours I've spent learning it yet.

    But as the tool and my understanding of it improves it'll probably happen some day.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Heh. That's a fun chart. If that's programming aptitude, I scored 80 on that part of the broad spectrum aptitude test I got a sneak-peek chance to do several parts of. Well now I know why I'm so easily in agreement with "senior coders", if it is programming aptitude quotient. If it's just iq, ... pulls hood up to block the glare.

    Daunting that there may be a middling bias getting apparent advantages. Evolution may not serve us well like that.

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