[kevmo314]

You've missed the point of the article, which in fact agrees with your anecdote.

> It's equally common for developers to work in environments where little value is placed on understanding systems, but a lot of value is placed on quickly delivering changes that mostly work. In this context, I think that AI tools have more of an advantage. They can ingest the unfamiliar codebase faster than any human can, and can often generate changes that will essentially work.

[moogleii]

That would be an aside, or a comment, not the point of the article.

[antonvs]

> You've missed the point of the article

Sadly clickbait headlines like the OP, "AI slows down open source developers," spread this misinformation, ensuring that a majority of people will have the same misapprehension.

[raincole]

Which is a good thing for people who are currently benefiting from AI, though. The slower other programmers adopt AI, the more edge those who are proficient with it have.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize a simple fact: using AI well is a shallow skill that everyone can learn in days or even hours if they want. And then my small advantage of knowing AI tools will disappear. Since the realization I've been always upvoting articles that claims AI makes you less productive (like the OP).

[antonvs]

I'd recommend spending more effort on improving your actual skills. The advantage of being good at what you do tends to be quite stable and more beneficial.

[rightbyte]

So you bother push some sort of self proclaimed false narrative with upvotes but then you try to counteract it by spelling it out?