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I think of this story every time I see a statistic about how much LLMs have "increased the productivity" of a developer
by conartist6 1y ago
I think of this story every time I see a statistic about how much LLMs have "increased the productivity" of a developer
- Chris_Newton 1y agoOr the current industry favourite, “X% of our new code is now written by AI!”
- cb321 1y agoLOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoMicrosoft, the number being 30%; whether that's accurate is another matter. Twenty years ago people already used IDEs to generate boilerplate code (remember Java's getters/setters/hashCode/toString?) because some guy in a book said you had to.
- thomashop 1y agoI use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.
- nyarlathotep_ 1y agoIn Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler.
- 1970-01-01 1y agoIncluding the cost to build and maintain new nuclear power plants takes developers' efficiency into absurdity.
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- tuveson 1y agoDon't be too hard on AI, it can delete code too! https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131 https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in...
- tonyedgecombe 1y agoI love the way the "Community Ambassador" steps in and offers solutions to this problem after it has happened.