Martijn Faassen has moved on Nostr: Percentage code written by AI would seem to be a misleading metric if much of that is ...
Percentage code written by AI would seem to be a misleading metric if much of that is text written by clever autocomplete.
"Finish this" and "more of the same" is quite different from thinking up what needs to be done and how to do it.
We don't go and say "3% of code is written by language server based autocomplete, therefore we have automated away 3% of programming with it"
#programming #llm
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