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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: 0.208s | source
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yodsanklai ◴[31 Aug 25 21:40 UTC] No.45087351[source]▶
Seems about right for me (older developer at a big tech company). But we need to define what it means that the code is AI-generated. In my case, I typically know how I want the code to look like, and I'm writing a prompt to tell the agent to do it. The AI doesn't solve any problem, it just does the typing and helps with syntax. I'm not even sure I'm ultimately more productive.
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ojosilva ◴[31 Aug 25 23:05 UTC] No.45087883[source]▶
I didn't see much mention of tab-completions in the survey and comments here. To me that's the ultimate coding AI is doing at my end, even though it seems to pass unnoticed nowadays. It's massive LOC (and comments!), and that's were I find AI immensely productive.
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1. another_twist ◴[31 Aug 25 23:35 UTC] No.45088063[source]▶
Tab completions simply hit the bottleneck problem. I dont want to press tab on every line it makes no sense. I would rather AI generate a function block and then integrate it back. Saves me the typing hassle and I can focus in design and business logic.