Comment by conartist6
1 year ago
I think of this story every time I see a statistic about how much LLMs have "increased the productivity" of a developer
1 year ago
I think of this story every time I see a statistic about how much LLMs have "increased the productivity" of a developer
Don't be too hard on AI, it can delete code too!
https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in...
I love the way the "Community Ambassador" steps in and offers solutions to this problem after it has happened.
Or the current industry favourite, “X% of our new code is now written by AI!”
Microsoft, the number being 30%; whether that's accurate is another matter. Twenty years ago people already used IDEs to generate boilerplate code (remember Java's getters/setters/hashCode/toString?) because some guy in a book said you had to.
I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.
In Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler.
LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..
Including the cost to build and maintain new nuclear power plants takes developers' efficiency into absurdity.