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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: 0s | 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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1. victorbjorklund ◴[01 Sep 25 06:02 UTC] No.45089870[source]▶
100%. My instructions are often pretty exact "i want a genserver that fetches the data every X sec and updates Y if new data"
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2. cpursley ◴[01 Sep 25 11:29 UTC] No.45091821[source]▶
Yeah, Claude has gotten much better with Elixir. I think too many people expect one-shot miracles, but you have to guide it along like you would a junior, including directing it towards the proper context.