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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: 0s | 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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marssaxman ◴[01 Sep 25 00:48 UTC] No.45088412[source]▶
That's funny. I remember using interactive debuggers all the time back in the '90s, but it's been a long time since I've bothered. Logging, reading, and thinking is just... easier.
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1. globular-toast ◴[01 Sep 25 06:17 UTC] No.45089959[source]▶
Yeah, I remember learning to use gdb when I was beginning in the early 2000s. I totally thought I was "levelling up" as a programmer and to be honest felt kinda badass with all those windows open in Emacs. But I've found that the number of times I actually resorted to using the debugger has been so small I don't remain fluent in it's use. What am I supposed to do? Write more bugs? On the other hand, I'm always ready to read, think and put in some print/log statements.