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.

  • ellohir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    More code is better, obviously! Why else would a website to see a restaurant menu be 80Mb? It’s all that good, excellent code.