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Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

If you are wondering how it could possibly be “worth it” the end of the article has this.

The Fastly survey found that senior developers were twice as likely to put AI-generated code into production compared to junior developers, saying that the technology helped them work faster.

So vibes. Vibe coding is “worth it” because people got good vibes.

The research shows that - while engineers think AI makes them more about 20% more productive - it actually causes an approximate 20% slow-down.

AI cannot use logic or reason. Everything it outputs is a hallucination, even if it’s sometimes accurate. You cannot trust anything it outputs.

[–] hisao@ani.social 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

senior developers were twice as likely to put AI-generated code into production compared to junior developers, saying that the technology helped them work faster

Perhaps senior devs are more likely to use more granular, step-by-step, controlled prompting. Asking it do write specific functions in specific ways and following specific approaches and conventions instead of just "do me an app, robot bro".

[–] Bababasti@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s actually how I am using AI for my work (web dev, pls don’t hate me). If I am stuck or have some tiny function missing for a task I ask AI, check their output - if it’s garbage I continue on my own again or if it’s usable I review the output and continue from there. Also, I think AI can be neat for „rubberducking“ when I am debugging some stupid shit and point me in directions I haven’t looked before.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Similar to how I have found success with it. Is it revolutionary? No, not at all. But it's a variable sized (big for some use and nonexistent for other use) incremental tool that requires a new skill set to use effectively.

Mix in all of the hype and its easy to see why people are confused and why some get different results.

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