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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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[โ€“] Steve@startrek.website 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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