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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful (www.zdnet.com)

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A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

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[–] dregan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's probably a legacy code quality issue too. If your code is a mess, the only fix it can find is a kludgy one. The first thing I had it do, once it was good enough to do real work, was a legacy refactor to get architecture up to best practice standards. Heck, even OpenAI's Harness Engineering specs say that this is essential to do first. I suspect that many of the people saying it comes up with shitty solutions are the same ones that always complain about over-engineering.

You'll also get subpar results if you just have it start coding without fully architecting its solution first. Just like a real developer.