The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by NitpickLawyer on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:54AM (#42337774)

I think the field is too new and the successful stories too private atm. However I think the best apples to apples example in this context is Amz's codebase update project that they've blogged about.

From memory, they took some old java projects, and had some LLM driven "agents" update the codebase to recent java. I don't know java enough to know how "hard" this task is, but asking around I've heard that "analog" tools for this exist, but aren't that good, bork often, are hardcoded and so on.

Amz reported ~70% of code that came out passed code review, presumably the rest had to be tweaked by humans. I don't know if there are any "classical" tools that can do that ootb. So yeah, that's already imrpessive and "available today" so to speak.

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Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by skydhash on Friday December 06, 2024 @08:18AM (#42339524)

Java is intent as code. It’s so verbose that you have to use an IDE to not go crazy with all the typings. And when using an IDE, you autocomplete more than you type because of all the information that exists in the code

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