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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

  1. This isn't even close to existing.
  2. 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
  3. 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
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Point 3. is what I’m getting at. They desperately want to unload expensive developers, so bad. They’ll try it, and keep trying it, even as products suffer, in the hopes of driving down labor costs.

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