Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
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Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#2I guess I’m an older developer.
But I’ve come full circle and have gone back to hand coding after a couple years of fighting LLMs. I’m tired of coaxing their style and fixing their bugs - some of which are just really dumb and some are devious.
Artisanal hand craft for me!
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#3Developers are lazy. Anything that makes development faster or easier is going to be welcomed by a good developer.
If you find it is quicker not to use it then you might hate it, but I think it is probably better in some cases and worse in other cases.
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#4I guess I’m an older developer. But I’ve come full circle and have gone back to hand coding after a couple years of fighting LLMs. I’m tired of coaxing their style and fixing their bugs - some of which are just really dumb and some are devious. Artisanal hand craft for me!
The article is saying older devs vibe code: I think you misunderstood
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#5I guess I’m an older developer. But I’ve come full circle and have gone back to hand coding after a couple years of fighting LLMs. I’m tired of coaxing their style and fixing their bugs - some of which are just really dumb and some are devious. Artisanal hand craft for me!
By all means, if my goal is actually crafting anything.
Usually it isn't, though - I just want to pump out code changes ASAP (but not sooner).
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#6I guess I’m an older developer. But I’ve come full circle and have gone back to hand coding after a couple years of fighting LLMs. I’m tired of coaxing their style and fixing their bugs - some of which are just really dumb and some are devious. Artisanal hand craft for me!
The article is saying older devs vibe code: I think you misunderstood
Key word: "But"
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#7Developers are lazy. Anything that makes development faster or easier is going to be welcomed by a good developer. If you find it is quicker not to use it then you might hate it, but I think it is probably better in some cases and worse in other cases.
as a developer my first priority is whether the software works, not whether it is fast or easy to develop
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#8around a third of senior developers with more than a decade of experience are using AI code-generation tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini to produce over half of their finished software, compared to 13 percent for those devs who've only been on the job for up to two years.
A third? I would expect at least a majority based on the headline and tone of the article... Isn't this saying 66% are down on vibe coding?
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#9Is "vibe coding" synonymous with using AI code-generation tools now?
I thought vibe coding meant very little direct interaction with the code, mostly telling the LLM what you want and iterating using the LLM. Which is fun and worth trying, but probably not a valid professional tool.
Re: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
#10I guess I’m an older developer. But I’ve come full circle and have gone back to hand coding after a couple years of fighting LLMs. I’m tired of coaxing their style and fixing their bugs - some of which are just really dumb and some are devious. Artisanal hand craft for me!
By all means, if my goal is actually crafting anything. Usually it isn't, though - I just want to pump out code changes ASAP (but not sooner).
Even then I’ve mostly given up. I’ve seen LLMs change from snake case to camel case for a single method and leave the rest untouched. I’ve seen them completely fabricate APIs to non existent libraries. I’ve seen them get mathematical formulae completely wrong. I’ve seen it make entire methods for things that are builtins of a library I’m already using.
It’s just not worth it anymore for anything that is part of an actual product.
Occasionally I will still churn out little scripts or methods from scratch that are low risk - but anything that gets to prod is pretty much hand coded again.