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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants (www.cio.com)
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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago

Generative AI is great for loads of programming tasks like helping create regular expressions or syntax conversions between languages. The main issue I've seen in codebases that rely heavily on generative AI is that the "solutions" often fix today's bug while making future debugging more difficult. Generative AI makes it easy to go fast in the wrong direction. Used right it's a useful tool.