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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants (www.cio.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/fuck_ai

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“Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel”

study referenced: Can GenAI Actually Improve Developer Productivity? (requires email)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Based take. Totally agree. Have faced both sides, where it helps with silly errors on new languages, and where it is absolutely incapable of debugging a slightly more complex issue. It's useful, but only for certain tasks.