Your "lived experience" just follows the same bias.
Actual tangible real results say different.
I know the anti AI folks would like to believe AI coding results are a mass hallucination but the completed software that I build in record time with deep functionality says otherwise.
Got some data?
There is nothing I could say that would convince a skeptic.
You’d need probably at least 30 to 40 people (there’s ways to estimate this, but this is gut feeling from years ago when I did studies like this)
It would take on a few flaws in tfa which has a low number of people who operate in a codebase that they know very well on issues that they self-selected (and thus already will have a (perhaps subconscious) strategy for).
That would help convincing skeptics.
Unless you've timed yourself doing the same task once with AI and once without, while having forgotten everything about said task in meantime, you don't have tangible real results that show otherwise.
I've been using roocode for about 6 months now and I automated everything. It does in one night what would take 2-3 months by hand. There's no way its not helping good devs who can prompt ai well.
So I feel its fairly safe to say that models aren't even close to 10x productivity gain for average developers, so developer jobs are not really in jeopardy so far. If it was easy to be more productive with AI models then this study would have found that, the only productivity gain this study could have missed would be if it was really hard or if the gain was really small, and both of those means it wont replace most developers.
It's not about working faster or slower, it's getting it right in the most efficient way possible.
It gets a flawed but working version quicker, but it takes much longer to get to anything I can release.
AI mostly helps me discover new thing about a public API, or show one general solution to a problem, but then I mostly have to solve everything myself anyway to get anything good.
The perception that AI tools make development faster is perhaps due to the part we spend a lot of time with thinking about how to write (like commenting) is solved instantly.
I think a lot of the delay is that it’s a new class of tool, and just like last gen IDE it takes a bit of getting used to and know where their strengths are, and know how to effectively fit it into your workflow.
Well, unless of course you are building low-risk software in which you don't care about it's correctness then sure.
> ...as long as you work within your domain of expertise.
But again, try tell that to the "vibe-coders" who get stuck when AI agents continue to insert bugs they cannot find.
In languages and libraries I know less well - vuejs+myriad of (especially) js libraries, I would say I'm much faster, especially as I delegate more style and structure to the AI.
laborcontract•6h ago
You could tell me AI coding makes me 50% slower. I'm taking it. I refuse to grind my wrists to dust.
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miloignis•3h ago
I've heard good things about voice typing with Talon too, but never tried it.