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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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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The biggest value I get from AI in this space is when I get handed a pile of spagehtti and ask for an initial overview.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I thought that as well and got some code from someone that left the company and asked it to comment it.

    It did the obvious "x= 5 // assign 5 to x" crap comments and then it got to the actually confusing part and just skipped that mess entirely....

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