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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful (www.zdnet.com)
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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.

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 7 hours ago

I've had them do this for various things, nowhere near the 20% of the time they've called "the hallucination rate" but definitely once in a while if it doesn't know it will guess.

Which, to be fair, is what I've been doing for 40+ years in computer programming. When you have the ability to check if you've guessed right or wrong in a couple of seconds or even minutes, but researching it to "be sure" (and sometimes still get it wrong) before trying might take hours it's only natural / efficient to guess a few times before giving up and RTFM.