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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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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, it was hyped? Not just ridiculed?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A VP and his taking head sycophants at my work has not shut up about it. They went through some trouble to automatically measure employee use of the AI and made it a performance measure. So now we have it generate code so we don't get fired and mostly throw it away.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

Oh, I did not know hell was hiring.