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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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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have an LLM usage mandate in my performance review now. I can’t trust it to do anything important, so I’ll get it to do incredibly noddy things like deleting a clause (that I literally always have highlighted) or generate documentation that’s more long-winded than just reading the code and then go to the bathroom while it happens.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

Gotta justify all that money that they have just spent without any trials, testing or end user input.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you fucking serious?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, i've heard about it widely

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

goodhart's law's zombie era