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510 points xeonmc | 9 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.902s | source | bottom
1. conartist6 ◴[25 Jun 25 22:22 UTC] No.44382320[source]▶
I think of this story every time I see a statistic about how much LLMs have "increased the productivity" of a developer
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2. Chris_Newton ◴[25 Jun 25 23:00 UTC] No.44382591[source]▶
Or the current industry favourite, “X% of our new code is now written by AI!”
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3. 1970-01-01 ◴[25 Jun 25 23:03 UTC] No.44382612[source]▶
Including the cost to build and maintain new nuclear power plants takes developers' efficiency into absurdity.
4. ◴[26 Jun 25 00:28 UTC] No.44383108[source]▶
5. tuveson ◴[26 Jun 25 00:39 UTC] No.44383153[source]▶
Don't be too hard on AI, it can delete code too!

https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in...

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6. tonyedgecombe ◴[26 Jun 25 06:21 UTC] No.44384677[source]▶
I love the way the "Community Ambassador" steps in and offers solutions to this problem after it has happened.
7. cb321 ◴[26 Jun 25 09:14 UTC] No.44385599[source]▶
LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..
8. Cthulhu_ ◴[26 Jun 25 12:25 UTC] No.44386737[source]▶
Microsoft, the number being 30%; whether that's accurate is another matter. Twenty years ago people already used IDEs to generate boilerplate code (remember Java's getters/setters/hashCode/toString?) because some guy in a book said you had to.
9. thomashop ◴[26 Jun 25 13:13 UTC] No.44387113[source]▶
I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.