Are you better at coding than an AI? Developers don’t think so - and that could be a big problem

- Survey of 800 developers reveals over half believe AI can code better than humans
- But most are positive about changes AI is bringing
- Reservations remain, with job security, data privacy, and inaccuracies still causing concerns

https://techradar.com/pro/...

Makes me wonder where they polled. Experienced devs would see this differently I would hope.

If they polled at colleges God help us. The clueless.

Humans have a bigger context window. AI prefers to duplicate certain stuff instead of writing something smart. But in general, AI comes with a lot of whistles. I code without exception handling and stuff, I let AI at such things, I select my source and let it make production ready. It is very language depended and model depended if AI can do it better. But many people are not that experienced with AI IMHO. I spent 700,- on this year, for using AI and working with AI. Prompting is a skill that keeps advancing. Working with AI / create functions with it also is something that keeps advancing. It took a lot of time to learn it proper and I do not think that many people have that time. I doubt all opinions on this.

Edit: let put it this way, if you're still coding without AI, you're lost.

shill detected; remove hypercopium in progress.

Functions? AI is definitely faster. The architecture and overall design? AI is horrible.

yeah of course, what the mass media says, is always the truth.

Right?

Sure, sure!

Meanwhile:

https://devrant.com/rants/19112483/...

"Job security and inaccuracies causing problems"

The risk isn't that AI will replace us, it's that shareholders will settle for AI-generated code, bringing forth the worst possible outcomes for everyone involved.

@lorentz There are two kinds of bad code:

1) Code that has bugs
2) Code that never ships

#1 has always existed. It will always exist.

Same with #2.

But there are inefficiencies with humans (like sleeping, eating, having a life outside of work). And businesses generally like to ship the stuff they build. The faster, the better. Through computers, even. If there are bugs, the humans will be hired to intervene and even architect better ways of working with the computers to make them ship better code faster.

In other words, this new development of AI doing stuff is really no different from all the other allegedly employment-ending technologies that have come about. We just need to adapt, again, like we did before.