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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

I'm not a programmer, but I've dabbled with Blender for 3D modeling, and it uses Node trees for a lot of different things, which is pretty much a programming GUI. I googled how to make a shader, and the AI gave me instructions. About half of it was complete nonsense, but I did make my shader.

[–] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (7 children)

So this article is basically a puff piece for Code Rabbit, a company that sells AI code review tooling/services. They studied 470 merge/pull requests, 320 AI and 150 human control. They don't specify what projects, which model, or when, at least without signing up to get their full "white paper". For all that's said this could be GPT 4 from 2024.

I'm a professional developer, and currently by volume I'm confident latest models, Claude 4.5 Opus, GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 Pro, are able to write better, cleaner code than me. They still need high level and architectural guidance, and sometimes overt intervention, but on average they can do it better, faster, and cheaper than me.

A lot of articles and forums posts like this feel like cope. I'm not happy about it, but pretending it's not happening isn't gonna keep me employed.

Source of the article: https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

You need to babysit and double check everything it does. You can’t just let it loose and trust everything it does.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

This is news?

But you see. That’s the solution. Now you pay foreigners to clean up the generated code by offshoring the engineers. At 1/100 the cost.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 6 points 5 days ago

I'll go ahead and file this under "duh".

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