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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (www.404media.co)
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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m a software developer and I say that AI is the greatest force-multiplier that’s been introduced into the field since the compiler.

As a person who works with coworkers who fully embraced it, it doesn't look like they are any faster. There is one group that is faster, but they don't verify their code and provide burden of it on another person who reviews PR to go through their shit code (sorry, but it is unnecessarily complex, does things in weird ways, I've seen it had bugs that even canceled each other (I guess this is probably due to re-running until things work))

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve seen it had bugs that even canceled each other (I guess this is probably due to re-running until things work))

I've seen human coders do this quite a bit, even myself - always unintentional, usually brain-bending when you find the first inversion.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it is domain of young developers who just want choice to do what they do, but don't care how.

Even you use LLM you often have similar mindset.

I belong to group of people with a weakness that I want to understand every step of the code that I produce. When LLM produces something I need to understand what it does (which takes time) then I realize I could do it better way, so I rewrite it. So LLM just slows me down.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

I understand many things clearly, but when it comes to binary yes/no true/false 1/0 type results my brain tends to answer: Yes, it's one of those. I don't think I've made a double inversion "working" error since the 1990s, but I know I've seen others do it - even in Rust.