Once again, the core threat to software engineers is not that AI will replace us, but that the C-suite will come to believe that AI can replace us. And given the incentives of VC funding, less payroll in exchange for 41% more bugs might still be a worthwhile trade off for them.
A study measured the performance of 800 developers before and after getting GitHub's Copilot. It found: - No change in productivity - No change in burnout levels - A 41% increase in the bug rate!?? Aren't you thrilled we're burning the world to power these AI models?
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
Offshoring and H1B visas haven’t replaced us (all) yet - but they still want AI so they don’t even have to pay in rupees for devs?
The gen A.I. has it uses but they mess up randomly and you need an experienced engineer to fix its mistakes.
My boss is literally already asking about this. I tried it with a few basic functions and the output did not work without further human intervention. No idea if it saved me time debugging its output versus just writing myself. Defs couldn’t (shouldn’t) be relied upon in my field of forensics.
The C in C-suite stands for “clueless” :o).
The C-suite believes the darndest things.