I haven’t seen a study yet that suggests AI tools enhance productivity of developers.
I wouldn’t take it as a given.
The study I have seen was from a company selling AI developer tools whose researchers were employed by said company. Not exactly and independent and bias-free study.
Personally they don’t work for me.
It’s not AI that is going to take out jobs. It’s the capital class that will do that. That’s what is changing the industry.
I suspect this will be the year we start to hear stories of folks getting let go for not using LLM codegen.
Interesting I found SO to not be that helpful even during the golden years.
I should not that I tend to work in codebases that have little to no public information though so that might be the differentiator. Presumably an LLM would be less useful due to that but I'm looking forward to trying again in the future.
From my experience AI tools can help a lot to write some parts of your code. You could for example generate a parameterized test from several similar tests. Doing the same by hand might take half an hour, where it would only a take a minute to feed the right things to the AI tool and let it generate the code.
I wouldn’t take it as a given.
The study I have seen was from a company selling AI developer tools whose researchers were employed by said company. Not exactly and independent and bias-free study.
Personally they don’t work for me.
It’s not AI that is going to take out jobs. It’s the capital class that will do that. That’s what is changing the industry.
I suspect this will be the year we start to hear stories of folks getting let go for not using LLM codegen.