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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds (futurism.com)
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"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.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oddly enough, my grasp of coding is probably the same as the guy in the middle but I still know that LLM generated code is garbage.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I actually considered putting the same text on all 3, but we gotta put the idiots that think it's great somewhere! Maybe I should have put it with the dumbest guy instead.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Think this one needs a bimodal curve with the two peaks representing the "caught up in the hype" average coder and the realistic average coder.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed, that's why it didn't feel quite right when I made it.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, there’s definitely morons out there who never bothered to even read about the theory of good code design.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess I'm one of the idiots then, but what do I know. I've only been coding since the 90s

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 weeks ago

All the best garbage to learn from, to debug, debug, debug, sharpening those skills.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's kinda wrong though. I've seen llm's write pretty good code, in some cases even doing something clever I hadn't thought of.

You should treat it as any junior though, and read the code changes and give feedback if needed.