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.

  • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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    22 days ago

    With an understanding of good practice, a proper development environment and a close eye on the junior devs, there’s no inherent issue to using it.

    My feelings about C/C++ are the same. I’m still switching to Rust, because that’s what the company wants.