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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds (futurism.com)
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"No Duh," say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 94 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (17 children)

There's some real perks to using AI to code - it helps a ton with templatable or repetitive code, and setting up tedious tasks. I hate doing that stuff by hand so being able to pass it off to copilot is great. But we already had tools that gave us 90% of the functionality copilot adds there, so it's not super novel, and I've never had it handle anything properly complicated at all successfully (asking GPT-5 to do your dynamic SQL calls is inviting disaster, for example. Requires hours of reworking just to get close.)

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

(asking GPT-5 to do your dynamic SQL calls is inviting disaster, for example. Requires hours of reworking just to get close.)

Maybe it's the dynamic SQL calls themselves that are inviting disaster?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dynamic SQL in of itself not an issue, but the consequences (exacerbated by SQL's inherent irrecoverability from mistakes - hope you have backups) have stigmatized its use heavily. With an understanding of good practice, a proper development environment and a close eye on the junior devs, there's no inherent issue to using it.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 2 weeks ago

With an understanding of good practice, a proper development environment and a close eye on the junior devs, there’s no inherent issue to using it.

My feelings about C/C++ are the same. I'm still switching to Rust, because that's what the company wants.

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