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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: 0.233s | source
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lpapez ◴[31 Aug 25 21:31 UTC] No.45087294[source]▶
This article goes completely against my experience so far.

I teach at an internship program and the main problem with interns since 2023 has been their over reliance on AI tools. I feel like I have to teach them to stop using AI for everything and think through the problem so that they don't get stuck.

Meanwhile many of the seniors around me are stuck in their ways, refusing to adopt interactive debuggers to replace their printf() debug habits, let alone AI tooling...

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1. another_twist ◴[31 Aug 25 23:33 UTC] No.45088042[source]▶
Nitpicking a bit here but theres nothing wrong with printf debugging. Its immensely helpful to debug concurrent programs where stopping one part would mess up the state and maybe even avoid the bug you were trying to reproduce.

As for tooling, I really love AI coding. My workflow is pasting interfaces in ChatGPT and then just copy pasting stuff back. I usually write the glue code by hand. I also define the test cases and have AI take over those laborious bits. I love solving problems and I genuinely hate typing :)