The last time me and another dev spent two straight days rewriting and debugging everything cause there was an international exhibition that was about to start and the company was at the front of the line and everyone else simply pushed a ton of code that was 75% AI-generated, completely ignoring the edge cases, which were more than people anticipated
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75% AI-generated
In the thread “New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'”
Helped: Dumb, repetitive, and mundane tasks.
Got in the way: Production code with edge cases and complex features.
… And on more than one occasion this has backfired massively in everyone's face. The last time me and another dev spent two straight days rewriting and debugging everything cause there was an international exhibition that was about to start and the company was at the front of the line and everyone else simply pushed a ton of code that was 75% AI-generated, completely ignoring the edge cases, which were more than people anticipated. But probably the most off-putting thing I've experienced is an OKR session with 50 people in it, where a lead dev publicly opened chatgpt, prompted "how do we reduce the number of critical bugs by 30% in the next quarter", chatgpt came up with a generic response, everyone said "perfect", copy-paste that into Jira and call it a day. …