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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Entry-level devs ain't replacing anyone. One senior dev is going to be doing the work of a whole team

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    But when a mid-tier or entry level dev can do 60% of what a senior can do, it’ll be a great way to cut costs.

    Same as how an entry level architect can build a building 60% as tall, and that'll last 60% as long, right?

    Edit: And an entry level aerospace engineer with AI assistance will build a plane that's 60% as good at not crashing.

    I'm not looking forward to the world I believe is coming...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Get 2 and the plane will be 120% as good!

    In fact if children with AI are a mere 1% as good, a school with 150 children can build 150% as good!

    I am sure this is how project management works, and if it is not maybe Elon can get Grok to claim that it is. (When not busy praising Hitler.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    this brooks no argument and it’s clear we should immediately throw all available resources at ai so as to get infinite improvement!!~

    (I even heard some UN policy wonk spout the AGI line recently 🙄)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I think more low tier output would be a disaster.

    Even pre AI I had to deal with a project where they shoved testing and compliance at juniors for a long time. What a fucking mess it was. I had to go through every commit mentioning Coverity because they had a junior fixing coverity flagged "issues". I spent at least 2 days debugging a memory corruption crash caused by such "fix", and then I had to spend who knows how long reviewing every such "fix".

    And don't get me started on tests. 200+ tests, of them none caught several regressions in handling of parameters that are shown early in the frigging how-to. Not some obscure corner case, the stuff you immediately run into if you just follow the documentation.

    With AI all the numbers would be much larger - more commits "fixing coverity issues" (and worse yet fixing "issues" that LLM sees in code), more so called "tests" that don't actually flag any real regressions, etc.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    half as good as expert human

    60% of what a senior can do

    is there like a character sheet somewhere so i can know where i fall on this developer spectrum

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's going to be your INT bonus modifier, but you can get a feat that also adds the WIS modifier

    For prolonged coding sessions you do need CON saving throws, but you can get advantage from drinking coffee (once per short rest)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, the glorious future where every half-as-good-as-expert developer is now only 25% as good as an expert (a level of performance also known as being "completely shit at it"), but he's writing 10x the amount of unusable shitcode.

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