A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

  • MangoCats@feddit.it
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    2 days ago

    Some colleagues are showing off 20k+ line change commits with no review.

    Our primary use of the Cursor LLM agent is: code review. Refinement of the review to clear out the misconceptions - improvement of the pull request documentation to make intent more clear for everyone - not just the LLM agents.

    We also have come (lately) to rely on it for writing unit tests. A year ago the LLM written tests tended to be ineffective, just “whitewash” coverage that didn’t really check the important aspects of the requirements. Today, they’re probably better than our Sr Sw Eng written unit tests, and you can crank the coverage arbitrarily high with very little effort.

    Whilst I’m at most doing 100 lines, usually 10 or less.

    One of my big criticisms of the .NET toolchain is that even simple changes can touch 47+ files, thousands of lines of code, and take hours just to have eyes on everything that changed, whereas a similar change in my Qt/C++ might be one line, or up to a dozen here a dozen there in maybe 6 files, but never the mess I’ve been seeing come out of .NET/WPF and friends for the past 20 years.