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31 Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 2 place · today 17:00 EDT

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language models. Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerni

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