2026-10-20 16:20 UTC
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@auzy1@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 17:18
Productivity gains are substantial but vary by task complexity: GenAI accelerates OSS development in more ways than simply writing code faster. Respondents estimate average time reductions across all six OSS development activities measured, including proposal discussions (19%) and code authoring (52%). For high-complexity tasks, however, 21% of respondents report taking more time when using GenAI. You lose some you also win some though. Everything still goes through human review though regardless. So, it just shifts the time spent from writing code to rewiting code and reviews most likely
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@Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 17:45
It’s eternal september
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@KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2026-10-20 17:49
Thats less than I would think. After all, Sturgeon’s Law
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@Thorry@feddit.org 2026-10-20 19:00
The whole productivity boost is such a non-argument. A lot of that code was written by people why don’t know what they are doing, so without the tool they wouldn’t have written any code at all. For the people that do know what they are doing, it helps them shit out code faster. But is that actually a gain in productivity? It would only be the case if the quality remains the same, which in most cases it doesn’t. And if the sloperator took the time to read and understand the code, even review it perhaps, the time gains would evaporate. But we all know good sloperators don’t read or think, they ship! And then there’s the additional workload for the people that have to actually review all of that code the AI pooped out. Especially with complex code this can be very hard and with the increased amount of code submitted, their workload has grown. If we take that extra (harder) work into account, AI is actually making us as a whole less productive. If the gains were as significant as the slop glazers claim, the results would speak for themselves. In reality we aren’t sure, people THINK they are faster, they might ship shit out faster, but at expense of quality or extra work for others. Software as a whole would be transformed and we would all be in awe, in reality we see a bunch of shitty slop projects on Github, shit out and forgotten within a month. We see more issues than ever before, users are complaining about how bad everything is. Best case scenario you get something that kinda sorta works, good enough, while looking and feeling like icky slop. It’s been years now, where are the results?
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@ducktumn@lemmy.zip 2026-10-21 05:32
I bet Linus is happy since AI is a “great” tool and not using it is stupid amiright?
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@Kajika@lemmy.ml 2026-10-25 10:02
Can I say: Karma? It’s been a while now that the Linux “Foundation” has been big tech lapdog and corrupted, Torvald first. For me the eviction of Russian maintainer for their nationality was the last straw (of course it was initially done in full opacity) and now the AI chill is cherry on top. Under a fake cover of “community-based” FOSS this is consortium and the enshitification is just the logical consequence.