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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[+] Photuris@lemmy.ml -6 points 2 days ago (27 children)

The point isn’t to increase employee productivity (or employee happiness, obviously).

The point is to replace most employees.

In order for that to happen, LLM-assisted entry-level developers merely need to be half as good as expert human unassisted developers, at scale, at a lower aggregate cost.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

LLM-assisted entry-level developers merely need to be half as good as expert human unassisted developers

This isn't even close to existing.
The theoretical cyborg-developer at that skill level would surely be introducing horrible security bugs or brittle features that don't stand up to change
Sadly i think this is exactly what many CEOs are thinking is going to happen because they've been sold on openai and anthropic lies that it's just around the corner

[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I'm not scared a LLM is going to be able to replace me. I'm scared that CEO are going to think that"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

AI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.

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