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Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code (venturebeat.com)
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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I prefer the term slot machine coding because you keep thinking you almost have a jackpot but there's one lemon in there so you get that rush to keep pulling the lever and expecting different results.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's a great way of putting it and definitely something I was guilty of doing when this stuff first emerged and I was experimenting with it.

    Nowadays, I only use our internal LLM to generate boilerplate or simple scripts that wouldn't take me more than 5-10 minutes to write myself to save some tedium. I think that's what most actual devs/admins do with it nowadays, if they interface with the tech at all.

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