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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 | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.527s | 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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danielvaughn ◴[31 Aug 25 22:33 UTC] No.45087699[source]▶
Yeah I’m still not more productive. Maybe 10% more. But it alleviates a lot of mental energy, which is very nice at the age of 40.
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cmrdporcupine ◴[01 Sep 25 00:02 UTC] No.45088219[source]▶
Strangely I've found myself more exhausted at the end of the week and I think it's because of the constant supervision necessary to stop Claude from colouring outside the lines when I don't watch it like a hawk.

Also I tend to get more done at a time, it makes it easier to get started on "gruntwork" tasks that I would have procrastinated on. Which in turn can lead to burnout quite quickly.

I think in the end it's just as much "work", just a different kind of work and with more quantity as a result.

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1. daveguy ◴[01 Sep 25 03:59 UTC] No.45089315[source]▶
Now we just need an AI that helps with more quality.
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2. cmrdporcupine ◴[01 Sep 25 16:00 UTC] No.45093825[source]▶
No, what I want better is tooling that makes supervising and getting insight into what it's doing a superior experience.

A far more interactive coding "agent" that makes sure it walks through every change it makes with you, and doesn't just rush through tasks. That helps team members come up to speed on a repository by working through it with them.