A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Second, there are more personal costs. You’ll come to rely more and more on these tools, and your skills will rust.

    I mean, if you’re curious and you’re diligent, you can learn from what the AI chugs out. Skills only stagnate when you trust the AI blindly.

    I’d say the bigger problem is that when you’re outsourcing junior coder work (even the tedious stuff) to a machine, you’re not investing in new junior coders.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      I don’t trust the AI, I just can’t be bothered to argue. At the end of the day it’s no longer my code, so I feel no guilt about pushing in slop.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Trust But Verify is a good policy regardless of where your code comes from.

        “AI” code is still human code in some capacity. Human code is what it was trained on. What would you do with a module you grabbed off GitHub or a script you found on Discord? Hopefully the same thing.