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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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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

AI can’t handle legacy system quirks, creative problem solving, or massive projects with changing requirements.

I think that disliking ai - for whatever good reason - makes people shun the reality, cherry-pick articles/studies etc, but we have to be honest: We all do that - even when we try to balance it, so that is normal behaviour within a spectrum. However, current anti-ai leaning do end up blinded to how fast things are moving with this technology because it is moving so fast. There are massive burnouts just from those following AI development every day, and they constantly have to expand/narrow their scope. If anyone takes a few days of in their field of interest, it feels like they have to sprint to catch up. It is accelerating and is no longer confined to model inventions from big corps with mega models - developers are building 'cognitive architectures' around the current llm' limitations.

So to me, these 'AI can't ...' type of sentences are always changing as they become yesterdays 'AI cant ...' sentences within days or weeks. It is a great 'moving goalpost' tho, as there are a lot of human level evolutionary abilities lacking from current models. But every second, one+ of millions of people are working towards adding that next 'AI cant ..' sentence to yesterdays claims, and things are moving fast.

I think it is vital for everyone - in all corners of human 'belief-space' - to keep in active touch with this technology, as much as they can muster, agree they are angry but try to shake some hard assumptions/'loosen up', see where it is headed and adjust their expectations/plans for the future accordingly. Anger is an easy but dangerous thing as it can make us refuse to acknowledge something that we need to prepare for. We've all been there - many many times, and we all know how we think and act in anger. Now, is a bad time for that. Please familiarise your self with ai tech.

Not starting an argument/debate (i'm burned out atmo), just a long-winded observation really..

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Haha I feel the long winded observation, I get it. I'm open to being wrong about AI, but you missed the main point of my argument

    I don’t think the AI bubble will be around long enough for them to solve these shortcomings or the issues of expanding scope and scale leading to hallucinations.

    Right now AI simply can't (or at least last time I checked because you're correct the technology moves very fast) do the things I mentioned.

    These things, in my mind, are the gatekeepers for profitability if AI can figure these and any other issues and turn a profit before the bubble bursts, then yes we'd have an AI future. If we really get down to brass tacks (and now that I'm really thinking about it) that is the objective issue with AI, it isn't profitable yet, it doesn't matter if it can code a simulation of every life form on this planet if it isn't making money. If it can solve this problem however, then yes I'd agree, everyone saying "AI can't..." with eat their words seasoned with a little salt.

    To address your accusation of cherry picking articles and advice for keeping in touch, I was kind of forced to cherry pick while attempting to keep in touch? When I was researching modern developments in AI all I was fed was an excessive amount of marketing material (this is a red flag for obvious reasons), I had to intentionally break good faith and search for things like "The issues with claude code" to get something written by a person who did not have a conflict of interest when it came to reviewing AI

    I'd love to see examples of AI proving the naysayers wrong, but I was either seeing nothing but hype or enough evidence to remain skeptical of the technology.

    What I'm trying to say is that I've tried to follow AI, I've tried to be impartial, but combined with what I am seeing, what I experienced as a software developer, and the economic side of AI, I don't see any sort of AI revolution akin to the printing press or the internet. Just another race to wealth fueled by hype and some very impressive math.

    I do think that outside of coding AI has some really great promises, like being able to design an Excel spreadsheet in plain English is amazing for anyone afraid of Excel, so microsoft copilot has my respect within the M365 suite, granted I don't know what the Excel wizards have to say about the matter, but I think your average 9 to 5 desk worker whose experience with Excel revolved around accidentally opening it once would love copilot.

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