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AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say? (codemanship.wordpress.com)
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studies show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software

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[–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Yes it blows my mind everyone can't see all the historically perfectly fine software starting to crumble to dust

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    The big one for me was rsync, maintainer started vibecoding it and the first release with those changes had a huge amount of regressions.

    Yet it keeps getting held up as an example of "using AI tools properly".

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