AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds - eviltoast
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.

  • Steve@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I found that it only does well if the task is already well covered by the usual sources. Ask for anything novel and it shits the bed.

    • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      That’s because it doesn’t understand anything and is just vomiting forth output based on the code that was fed into it.