"The AI industry has made major promises about its tech boosting the productivity of developers, allowing them to generate copious amounts of code with simple text prompts. But those claims appear to be massively overblown, as The Register reports, with researchers finding that productivity gains are modest at best - and at worst, that AI can actually slow down human developers."
"In July, a damning study by nonprofit Model Evaluation & Threat Research found that AI coding tools may not just realize the expected productivity gains, they could slow software developers down. "Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19 percent longer than without - AI makes them slower," the researchers wrote. That's because hallucinations forced the developers to spend extra time cleaning up and reviewing code."
Generative AI arrived with sky-high expectations and widespread pilot projects. Developer adoption of AI coding tools remains low even where tools were rolled out. Some assistants produced ten to 15 percent productivity boosts, but most deployments yielded unremarkable savings that often did not translate into positive returns. Hallucinations and incorrect outputs forced developers to spend extra time cleaning up and reviewing code, reducing net productivity. AI coding tools performed worse in large, complex codebases by misunderstanding context. Concerns about exaggerated industry hype and the potential for an AI investment bubble persist.
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