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.

  • SparroHawc@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    3 天前

    At least in those situations, the person writing the tests knows they’re not testing anything…

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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      3 天前

      Some do, some don’t, but more importantly: most just don’t care.

      I had a tester wander into a set of edge cases which weren’t 100% properly handled and their first reaction was “gee, maybe I didn’t see that, it sounds like I’m going to have a lot more work because I did.”