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conartist6 ◴[25 Jun 25 22:22 UTC] No.44382320[source]▶

>>44381252 (OP) #

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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1. Chris_Newton ◴[25 Jun 25 23:00 UTC] No.44382591[source]▶

>>44382320 #

Or the current industry favourite, “X% of our new code is now written by AI!”

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2. cb321 ◴[26 Jun 25 09:14 UTC] No.44385599[source]▶

>>44382591 (TP) #

LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..

3. Cthulhu_ ◴[26 Jun 25 12:25 UTC] No.44386737[source]▶

>>44382591 (TP) #

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.

4. thomashop ◴[26 Jun 25 13:13 UTC] No.44387113[source]▶

>>44382591 (TP) #

I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.

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