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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful (www.zdnet.com)
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A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Pair programming/writing/creating is exactly how AI is meant to be used. It is an augmentor not a replacement for human competence. The person using it still has to do the thinking, qc, and directing, not take the first output as final.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    And always with skepticism!

    A couple other cool things I've seen experts do:

    The first: finding bugs which, considering the scarcity of humans capable of bugfinding doesn’t seem so bad in our weeks with finite hours.

    Next, really tedious work that experts do know how to do, but simply wouldn't prioritize because they have lives. A big one seems to be reverse engineering, like to give new life to ancient hardware. “I connected over USB at , give me control.”

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