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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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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I'd miss it a bit. Not a coder by any stretch of the imagination, just scripter, and honestly AI has become a search engine and a quick answer machine and it's ridiculous people pretending that it's useless.

Is it evil? Yes. Does it enrich billionaire oligarchs? Yes. Should we stop using it? Yes.

But you can't pretend it's not useful.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yah, it is generally a glorified search tool.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A pretty good one. I mean we're running out of them, google isn't very helpful anymore, and DDG is just a frontend...

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eh, I've had VERY mixed results. I've had it tell me information that I absolutely knew was wrong, and it did so with great confidence, until I copy and pasted the excerpt from the website and the URL back to it. It then goes, "Oh you're right!" Ughhhh....

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Mixed results. Just like an ordinary search. And please note- you knew it was wrong. It is much easier using a tool when you know when it's misbehaving. Sure the level of utility varies from person to person and situation to situation, but there are things I am truly grateful that AI helped me understand, learn, or just spit back at me. It is a very useful tool.

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