State of AI-assisted software development
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State of AI-assisted software development
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#2> This indicates that AI outputs are perceived as useful and valuable by many of this year’s survey respondents, despite a lack of complete trust in them.
Or the respondents have hard times admitting AI can replace them :-)
I'm a bit cynical but sometimes when I use Claude, it is downright frightening how good it is sometimes. Having coded for a lot of year, I'm sometimes a bit scared that my craft can, somtimes, be so easily replaced... Sure it's not building all my code, it fails etc. but it's a bit disturbing to see that somethign you have been trained a for a very long time can be done by a machine... Maybe I'm just feeling a glimpse of what others felt during the industrial revolution :-)
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#3> This indicates that AI outputs are perceived as useful and valuable by many of this year’s survey respondents, despite a lack of complete trust in them. Or the respondents have hard times admitting AI can replace them :-) I'm a bit cynical but sometimes when I use Claude, it is downright frightening how good it is sometimes. Having coded for a lot of year, I'm sometimes a bit scared that my craft can, somtimes, be…
Well when I use a power screwdriver I am always impressed by how much more quickly I can finish easy tasks too. I also occasionally busted a screw or three, that then I had to drill out...
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#4Every study I've read says nobody is seeing productivity gains from AI use. Here's an AI vendor saying the opposite. Funny.
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#5> This indicates that AI outputs are perceived as useful and valuable by many of this year’s survey respondents, despite a lack of complete trust in them. Or the respondents have hard times admitting AI can replace them :-) I'm a bit cynical but sometimes when I use Claude, it is downright frightening how good it is sometimes. Having coded for a lot of year, I'm sometimes a bit scared that my craft can, somtimes, be…
In a report from Google, who is heavily invested in AI becoming the future, I actually expect the respondents to sound more positive about AI than they actually are
Much like in person I pretend to think AI is much more powerful and inevitable than I actually think it is. Professionally it makes very little sense to be truthful. Sincerity won't pay the bills.
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Re: State of AI-assisted software development
#7Every study I've read says nobody is seeing productivity gains from AI use. Here's an AI vendor saying the opposite. Funny.
It's not even claiming that. It's only claiming that people who responded to the survey feel more productive. (Unless you assume that people taking this survey have an objective measure for their own productivity.)
> Significant productivity gains: Over 80% of respondents indicate that AI has enhanced their productivity.
_Feeling_ more productive is inline with the one proper study I've seen.
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#8Every study I've read says nobody is seeing productivity gains from AI use. Here's an AI vendor saying the opposite. Funny.
There's a few explanations for this, and it's not necessarily contradictory.
1. AI doesn't improve productivity and people just have cognitive biases. (logical, but I also don't think it's true from what I know...)
2. AI does improve productivity, but only if you find your own workflow and what tasks it's good for, and many companies try to shoehorn it into things which just don't work for it.
3. AI does improve productivity, but people aren't incentivised to improve their productivity because they don't see returns from it. Hence, they just use it to work less and have the same output.
4. The previous one but instead of working less, they work at a more leisurely pace.
5. AI doesn't improve producivity, people just feel it's more productive because it requires less cognitive effort to use than actually doing the task.
Any of these is plausible, yet they have massively different underlying explanations.... studies don't really show why that's the case. I personally think it's mostly 2. and 3., but it could really be any of these.
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#9Every study I've read says nobody is seeing productivity gains from AI use. Here's an AI vendor saying the opposite. Funny.
It's not even claiming that. It's only claiming that people who responded to the survey feel more productive. (Unless you assume that people taking this survey have an objective measure for their own productivity.) > Significant productivity gains: Over 80% of respondents indicate that AI has enhanced their productivity. _Feeling_ more productive is inline with the one proper study I've seen.
Well I feel and I am more productive, now on coding activities, I am not convinced, it basically replaced SO and google, but at the end of the day, I always need and want to check reference material that I may have known or not existed. Plenty of time, Google couldn't even find them.
So in my case, yes but not on activities these sellers are usually claiming.
Re: State of AI-assisted software development
#10Every study I've read says nobody is seeing productivity gains from AI use. Here's an AI vendor saying the opposite. Funny.
There's a few explanations for this, and it's not necessarily contradictory. 1. AI doesn't improve productivity and people just have cognitive biases. (logical, but I also don't think it's true from what I know...) 2. AI does improve productivity, but only if you find your own workflow and what tasks it's good for, and many companies try to shoehorn it into things which just don't work for it. 3. AI does improve prod…
Why not all? I've seen them all play out. There's also the people that are downstream of AI slop that feel less productive because now they have to clean up the shit other people produced.