pinball_wizard comments on Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think the appeal is that they already tried to lean to code and failed.

Folks I know who are really excited about vibe coding are the ones who are tired of not having access to a programmer.

In some of their cases, vibe coding is a good enough answer. In other cases, it is not.

Their workplaces get to find out later which cases were which.

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[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Funny cause my experience is completely the reverse. I've seen a ton of medium level developers just use copilot style auto complete without really digging into new workflows, and on the other end really experienced people spinning agents in parallel and getting a lot of shit done.

The "failed tech business people" are super hyped for ten minutes when cursor gives them a static html page for free, but they quickly grow very depressed when the actual work starts. Making sense of a code base is where the rubber meets the road, and agents won't help if you have zero experience in a software factory.

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[–] OldMrFish@lemmy.one 0 points 9 months ago

That's the funny thing. I definitely fall into the 'medium level' dev group (Coding is my job, but I haven't written a single line of code in my spare time for years), and frankly - I really like Copilot. It's like the standard code-completion on steroids. No need to spend excessive amounts of time describing the problem and review a massive blob of dubious code, just short-ish snippets of easily reviewed code based on current context.

Everyone seems to argue against AI as if vibe coding is the only option and you have to spend time describing every single task, but I've changed literally nothing in my normal workflow and get better and more relevant code completion results.

Obviously having to describe every task in detail taking edge cases into account is going to be a waste of time, but fortunately that's not the only option.

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