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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: 0.203s | 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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1. WalterSear ◴[31 Aug 25 20:49 UTC] No.45086950[source]▶
When debugging, I'll coax the AI to determine what went wrong first - to my satisfaction - and have it go from there. Otherwise it's a descent into madness.