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by anon22981 690 days ago
A team in our company did I an actual refactoring for a customer using some generative AI. They claimed it gave them like 10-15% estimated speed boost - but then again, people who’d try this out probably also buy into the hype and will say they had a speed boost regardless. Also obviously no control to compare to, so not much gained there.
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I’m not dismissing their achievement, but estimates is the most complicated thing in programming, almost as difficult to do as solving P=NP so I would be very cautious when someone says this.