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.

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Are you trying to tell me that the people wanting to sell me their universal panacea for all human endeavours were… lying…? Say it ain’t so.

    • SparroHawc@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      I mean, originally they thought they had come upon a magic bullet. Turns out it wasn’t the case, and now they’re going to suffer for it.