Coding is being positioned as place where generative AI is going to have a huge impact.
But a new study of 800 developers found GitHub Copilot did little to improve productivity, while introducing 41% more bugs into the code.
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html
@parismarx Experienced developers know this already and were vocal about it.
Inexperienced developers wanted to believe the hype because so much boilerplate code is being written, so why not.
Leadership wanted to believe it because it could replace developers and they could just prompt the requirements.
All because experienced developers sounded like dumb old farts that didn't want to change, and AI looked easier to deal with than developers.
I will be unf&$cking AI code for a while ...
Still, it's a slight improvement on the cheapest tier of Wipro or Infosys contractors from India, inasmuch as while you get unusable code either way, but you get it a lot faster with AI and you don't spend nearly as much time trying to explain the problem space to it. Minutes to get vaguely convincing-looking garbage, instead of days or weeks.
