| It is time to acknowledge that AI coding does not actually work. ok, you think it's a promising field and you want to explore it, fine. Go for it. Just stop pretending that what these models are currently doing is good enough to replace programmers. I use LLMs a lot, even for explaining documentation. I used to use them for writing _some_ code, but I have never ever gotten a code sample over 10 lines that was not in need of heavy modifications to make it work correctly. Some people are pretending to write hundreds of lines of code with LLMs, even entire applications. All I have to say is "lol". |
I have also seen it fail on far simpler tasks.
It varies so much depending on what you are doing, the language etc that generic proclamations "it works!" or "it doesn't work!" are pretty much meaningless.
That aside, you seem to be conflating "it works" with "good enough to replace programmers", but these aren't synonyms.
And on the gripping hand, one way to "make" it work is simply to lower the standards. Which our industry has been doing aplenty for a long time now even before AI, so we shouldn't be surprised when top management drives it to its logical completion.