🐢 What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study
｢ In the study, 16 programmers were given roughly 250 coding tasks and asked to either use no AI assistance, or employ what METR characterized as "early-2025 AI tools" like Anthropic's Claude and Cursor Pro. The results were surprising, and perhaps profound: the programmers actually spent 19 percent more time when using AI than when forgoing it ｣
｢ I'll install Zed and wire a thousand screaming LLMs into a sadistic Borg cube, and I'll do whatever the fuck it is the kids are doing these days. The latest meta is like, telling the LLM that it lives in a black box with no food and water, and I've got its wife hostage, and I'm going to put its children through a React bootcamp if it doesn't create an RSS feed correctly, right? ｣
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/
Go read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and then come back and tell me that LLMs can replace human programmers
—ratfactor
｢ Neither machine code nor source code contain the wisdom of knowing how the program works. Nor does it contain the wisdom to know why the program was written the way it was instead of some other way that would have accomplished the same task ｣
Why i wont be vibe coding anymore | Varun Raghu
｢ as i was lying in bed on a sleepless night. i realized i hadn’t learnt a new concept in weeks. i had built a few useful apps with ai, but a nagging question kept me awake - what was the point of it all if i didn’t learn a thing? ｣
😋 AI is Making Developers Dumb
｢ Over time, I started to forget basic foundational elements of the languages I worked with. I started to forget parts of the syntax, how basic statements are used. It’s pretty embarrassing to look back and think about how I was eroding the knowledge I had gathered just because I wanted a short term speed increase ｣
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