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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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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use it to whip out bash and python scripts quickly. I review them to see what it is doing. If AI disappeared it would just slow me down but not stop me.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Same. It builds ansible playbooks for me pretty reliably. And saved me a fuck ton of time on the contract I’m on now converting our entire chef baseline into ansible.

Easily done, but doing it all by hand would have been a pain. Did it in a couple of days for the first draft, then manually tweaked it for the weird shit Claude hallucinated.