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AI causing programmers to work longer hours fixing bugs

scientificamerican.com

9 points by timoth3y 16 days ago · 1 comment

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timoth3yOP 16 days ago

A Google survey of 5,000 developers finds AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live.

It seems that LLMs always do the enjoyable work and leave us with the drudgery.

It was supposed to do the dishes while we create art and write poetry, but it turns it gets to create the art and poetry while we wash the dishes. AU gets to write the code while we have to review it and fix the bugs.

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