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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49954591

“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.

Then there’s the issue of finding an agreed-upon way of tracking productivity gains, a glaring omission given the billions of dollars being invested in AI.

To Bain & Company, companies will need to fully commit themselves to realize the gains they’ve been promised.

“Fully commit” to see the light? That… sounds more like a kind of religion, not like critical or even rational thinking.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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    3 minutes ago

    They say the same about scrum.

    “It doesn’t work in you company, because you haven’t fully implemented all aspects of scrum”

    Coincidentally it costs about a gazillion dollars to become fully Scrum certified.

  • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
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    31 minutes ago

    “Fully commit” to see the light? That… sounds more like a kind of religion, not like critical or even rational thinking.

    It also gives these shovel peddlers an excuse: “Oh, you’re not seeing gains? Are you even lifting AI-ing, bro? You probably have some employees not using enough AI, you have to blame them instead of us.”