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499 points xeonmc | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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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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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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1. 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.