The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

“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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    23 days ago

    So much of the AI hype has been pointing to ten year old technology repackaged in a slick new interface.

    AI is the iPod to the Zune of yesteryear.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      91·
      22 days ago

      Repackaging old technology in slick new interfaces is what we have been calling progress in computer software for 40+ years.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        22 days ago

        I mean… I like to think we’ve done a bit more than that. FFS, file compression alone has made leaps and bounds since the 3.25" floppy days.

        Also, as a T-SQL guy, I gotta say there’s a world of difference between SQL 2008 and SQL 2022.

        But I’ll spot you that a lot of the last 10-15 years has produced herculean efforts in answering the question “How can we squeeze a few more ads into your GUI?”

        • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
          5·
          22 days ago

          There have been a few “milestone moments” like map-reduce Hadoop, etc. Still, there’s a whole lot of eye candy wrapped around the same old basic concepts.