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AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say? (codemanship.wordpress.com)

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studies show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes it blows my mind everyone can't see all the historically perfectly fine software starting to crumble to dust

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

The big one for me was rsync, maintainer started vibecoding it and the first release with those changes had a huge amount of regressions.

Yet it keeps getting held up as an example of "using AI tools properly".