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If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?
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Mostly closed source, because open source rarely accepts them as they are often just slop. Just assuming stuff here, I have no data.
To be fair if a competent dev used an ai "auto complete" tool to write their code, I'm not sure it'd be possible to detect those parts as an ai code.
I generally dislike those corporate AI tools but gave a try for copilot when writing some terraform script and it actually had good suggestions as much as bad ones. However if I didn't know that well the language and the resources I was deploying, it'd probably have led me to deep hole trying to fix the mess after blindly accepting every suggestion
They do more than just autocomplete, even in autocomplete mode. These Ai tools suggest entire code blocks and logic and fill in multiple lines, compared to a standard autocomplete. And to use it as a standard autocomplete tool, no Ai is needed. Using it like that wouldn't be bad anyway, so I have nothing against it.
The problems arise when the Ai takes away the thinking and brain functionality of the actual programmer. Plus you as a user get used to it and basically "addicted". Independent thinking and programming without Ai will become harder and harder, if you use it for everything.
People seem to think that the development speed of any larger and more complex software depends on the speed the wizards vsn type in code.
Spoiler: This is not the case. Even if a project is a mere 50000 lines long, one is the solo developer, and one has a pretty good or even expert domain knowledge, one spends the mayor part of the time thinking, perhaps looking up documentation, or talking with people, and the key on the keyboard which is most used doesn't need a Dvorak layout, bevause it is the "delete" key. In fact, you don't need yo know touch-typing to be a good programmer, what you need is to think clearly and logically and be able to weight many different options by a variety of complex goals.
Which LLMs can't.
I don't think it makes writing code faster, just may reduce the number of key presses required
And when they contribute to existing projects, their code quality is so bad, they get banned from creating more PRs.
Creator of curl just made a rant about users submitting AI slop vulnerability reports. It has gotten so bad they will reject any report they deem AI slop.
So there’s some data.