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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: 0.446s | 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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1. mshanu ◴[01 Sep 25 09:43 UTC] No.45091142[source]▶
I am pleasantly surprised when it is able to figure out the root cause of some bugs which at times require a lot of mental energy
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2. danielvaughn ◴[01 Sep 25 11:33 UTC] No.45091838[source]▶
Exactly