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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds (futurism.com)
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"No Duh," say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 weeks ago

One of the guys at my old job submitted a PR with tests that basically just mocked everything, tested nothing. Like,

with patch("something.whatever", return_value=True):
  assert whatever(0) is True
  assert whatever(1) is True

Except for a few dozen lines, with names that made it look like they were doing useful.

He used AI to generate them, of course. Pretty useless.

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 4 weeks ago

We have had guys submit tests like that, long before AI was a thing.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

At least in those situations, the person writing the tests knows they're not testing anything...

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 3 weeks ago

Some do, some don't, but more importantly: most just don't care.

I had a tester wander into a set of edge cases which weren't 100% properly handled and their first reaction was "gee, maybe I didn't see that, it sounds like I'm going to have a lot more work because I did."

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

True, I do feel mocked by this code.

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