The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49954591

“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.

Then there’s the issue of finding an agreed-upon way of tracking productivity gains, a glaring omission given the billions of dollars being invested in AI.

To Bain & Company, companies will need to fully commit themselves to realize the gains they’ve been promised.

“Fully commit” to see the light? That… sounds more like a kind of religion, not like critical or even rational thinking.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
    33·
    25 days ago

    They say the same about scrum.

    “It doesn’t work in you company, because you haven’t fully implemented all aspects of scrum”

    Coincidentally it costs about a gazillion dollars to become fully Scrum certified.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      5·
      24 days ago

      Scrum works because of 2 things.

      • Projects get simplified or abandoned much quicker

      • Tasks are assigned to the team, not the individual

      Everything else is entirely optional.