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Luisf Jan 31

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

Anthropic's own fucking study lmao

"Yeah AI coding makes you worse at it"

like
significantly so

This tracks with my personal experience in my previous job.

Rapid deskilling when they started using llm "prompt engineering" for the code they pushed.

Within weeks they basically had stopped being able to explain what they were pushing during code review.

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Honeydew Jan 31

@Loosf so that’s my experience of coding LLMs too. They shift more work from the developer to the reviewer. Which is a big problem since most projects have fewer people with the competency to review well than to develop, and hence the bottleneck of review gets even narrower.

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Matteꙮ Italia

@Honeydew @Loosf and in general, my experience with code review is that removing bugs is significantly harder than not putting them there in the first place.