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megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I bet they’re counting code written while someone had an AI plugin installed as “written by AI” and I bet that accounts for almost all of that 30%. On top of that, I’m betting that they made it mandatory to have such a plug in, and the other 70% is just code written before they mandated this.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I would be very surprised if 30% of their code lines had even been touched at all by anyone since AI coding assistants became a thing.

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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I wish this shot from The Terminator had the camera showing Sarah Conner’s face instead of Reese’s, because it’d be such an appropriate meme image on multiple levels.
  
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- megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I could see stuff getting small changes and them claiming that the entirety of the new version is “written by AI”.
  
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SandmanXC@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Also, having 1/3 lines with obvious code that can be auto suggested correctly would make sense, but that is hardly code “written by ai” in the way they suggest.

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- megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’d guess a lot of the people writing the code don’t even have it turned on, it’s just installed because management said it had to be, because management wants to be able to tell investors they’re “innovating work flows”.
  
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  - balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I am a small sample to confirm that’s exactly it.
    
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- Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Those are the easy time savings though, the safe easy stuff the developer doesn’t have to worry about anymore. (Giving them time do the gnarly stuff)
  
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  - taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It is exactly the opposite, with simple, predictable auto-complete you didn’t have to worry about that anymore, with LLMs you always have to look at it in detail because every little thing could be just plain completely different and wrong.
    
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    Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I can read way faster than I can type though. You still check it, but it’s pretty good as that kind of stuff once you have an example for it to follow.
    
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