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506 points xeonmc | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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daitangio ◴[25 Jun 25 20:33 UTC] No.44381563[source]▶
Software metric are hard, indeed :) Be prepared in a ai-code world when more code does not mean better code.
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bunderbunder ◴[25 Jun 25 20:48 UTC] No.44381664[source]▶
I've been watching my colleagues' adoption of Copilot with interest. From what I can tell, the people who are the most convinced that it improves their productivity have an understanding of developer productivity that is very much in line with that of the managers in this story.

Recently I refactored about 8,000 lines of vibe-coded bloat down into about 40 lines that ran ten times as fast, required 1/20 as much memory, and eliminated both the defect I was tasked with resolving and several others that I found along the way. (Tangentially, LLM-generated unit tests never cease to amaze me.) The PHBs didn't particularly appreciate my efforts, either. We've got a very expensive Copilot Enterprise license to continue justifying.

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1. amluto ◴[25 Jun 25 22:18 UTC] No.44382304[source]▶
Every now and then, in between reasonable and almost-reasonable suggestions, Copilot will suggest a pile of code, stylistically consistent with the function I’m editing, the extends clear off the bottom of the page. I haven’t been inspired to hit tab a couple times and try to reverse engineer the resulting vomit of code, but I can easily imagine a new programmer accepting the code because AI! or, perhaps worse, hitting tab without even noticing.