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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

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214 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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calibas ◴[31 Aug 25 15:59 UTC] No.45084171[source]▶
I think they're being really loose with the term "vibe coding", and what they really mean is AI-assisted coding.

Older devs are not letting the AI do everything for them. Assuming they're like me, the planning is mostly done by a human, while the coding is largely done by the AI, but in small sections with the human giving specific instructions.

Then there's debugging, which I don't really trust the AI to do very well. Too many times I've seen it miss the real problem, then try to rewrite large sections of the code unnecessarily. I do most of the debugging myself, with some assistance from the AI.

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9rx ◴[31 Aug 25 16:08 UTC] No.45084242[source]▶
> Assuming they're like me, the planning is mostly done by a human, while the coding is largely done by the AI

I've largely settled on the opposite. AI has become very good at planning what to do and explaining it in plain English, but its command of programming languages still leaves a lot to be desired.

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calibas ◴[31 Aug 25 16:22 UTC] No.45084365[source]▶
It's good at checking plans, and helping with plans, but I've seen it make really really bad choices. I don't think it can replace a human architect.
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1. bluefirebrand ◴[31 Aug 25 16:33 UTC] No.45084481[source]▶
It can't replace a human anything, yet, but that doesn't seem to be stopping anyone from trying unfortunately:(