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[–] 11 points 6 months ago* (7 children)

All the studies I've found so far seem to disagree, so why should we believe you?

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills (2026 study)

We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.

Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped (2025 study)

But those claims appear to be massively overblown, as The Register reports, with researchers finding that productivity gains are modest at best — and at worst, that AI can actually slow down human developers.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    AIs are (apparently) stupid and fail at non-trivial tasks. They also enjoy deleting production databases. They seem atrocious with any sort of quality.

    What would AI possibly be useful for, if you care about quality work?

    (I suppose they can sometimes help with vulnerability scanning and writing mindless e-mails if you're some sort of overworked customr agent, but those are pretty narrow uses. And I'm not going to upload my stuff to big tech data sloppers myself just for some slightly better vulnerability scanning.)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    That's the thing, I don't think LLMs bring many benefits. Too many lies, and so on.

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