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Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by fragmede on Friday December 06, 2024 @04:55AM (#42338140)
quantifying programmer productivity has been a problem since its inception. lines of code is a terrible metric. so is Jira ticket points. I can tell you that using an LLM, I can make a chrome extension to put a div that says "hello world" at the top of every webpage far quicker than if I had to read the specifications of extension manifests and how to do it manually but how do you quantify that generically? how do you quantify that vs the wasted time because it doesn't understand some nuance of what I'm asking it to do, or when it gets confused about something and goes in circles?
Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding by skydhash on Friday December 06, 2024 @08:21AM (#42339545)
You could also download a sample extension code, strip out the text and put “Hello World” instead. As fast and no need to train a model to do that.