'I can't stop': 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
www.zdnet.com
A Coddy Developer Survey revealed that AI coding is leading to a new kind of burnout.

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.

  • thefloweracidic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    I’m curious what tasks are you using GitHub Copilot for? I left the industry before AI got huge so I was never pressured to use the tools.

    • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      It can wrode code decently well and fast, and is amazing at finding stuff in a large project.

      But you still 100% need to verify what it does and truly understand it.

      • thefloweracidic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        42 minutes ago

        This isn’t what I was asking for, I’d like to see something like, “When tasked with X AI did Y” with breakdowns between simple bug fixes to standing up a monolith in a legacy environment.