Comment by theshrike79
6 days ago
One of the "actual studies" was pretty much grabbing developers off the street and telling them to "use AI to make things go fast".
And to no-one's surprise there was no increase in velocity.
I'd really like to see a study using people of similar skill level where one group doesn't use AI and never has and the other have been working with AI tooling for a year or more.
> you just need AI certification and over five years experience in AI coding stacks to make use of this
The trillions of dollars of capitalization wasn't based off a promise of "a new IDE that lets you write code slightly faster once you get over the learning curve".
That's just marketing.
AI is a force multiplier, or even an exponent if used correctly.
For regular folk with a skill of 1.01 it gives them the slight bump in speed and knowledge they need to get their ideas into some kind of MVP form.
But if you know what you're doing and work with it, you can get crazy amounts of stuff done - mostly the things you wouldn't have bothered to do at all because of the time investment required.
I've got so many tiny apps running that do specifically what I need, before I would have had to use someone else's "product" for it with a massive amount of useless (to me) features when I just need the one.
I just a few weeks ago simplified a whole massive open source webapp to a single dockerized ~300 line Python script that does the specific bit I want and it's been working flawlessly ever since. I never need to worry about enshittification or pivoting or the original creator adding AI slopped features (and security holes).