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arstechnica.comStudy finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slowerCoders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

If I were railroaded into being much less productive I would probably just pretend to use AI and instead do a lot more going for walks in parks and reading in the sunshine. Ironically, this would probably also boost my productivity.

Some companies try to track AI usage by checking peoples prompt history and such. You'd have to imvest time and effort to make up plausible conversations that you then ignore and do the real work yourself. That's like humoring a toddler on the side (which ironically I currently do as well)

Oliver Turner

@oliverturner.cloud

You’re right: only a fool would respond by vibe coding an agent to execute realistic-sounding prompts at a frequency statistically unlikely to arouse suspicion. From a deckchair.

I'm sure no pissed off software engineer with free time on their hands would be childish enough to do that

Stuart Robson

@sturobson.com

could you use AI to generate some plausible conversations so you can go for a walk instead

hang on I think you're on to something there

Kevin Powell

@kevinpowell.co

The marketing is that it makes employees more efficient, which of course, you want you employees to be. They also poke at it, and it does amazing things, so clearly the marketing is true. Of course, most actual evidence so far is to the contrary, but that requires effort to find.

Mazzaroppi Viltrumita

@wmitrut.bsky.social

It’s not just in tech. My wife works in law, and even she has been pushed to rely on Copilot to co-write parts of her legal work.

I thought when they found the first hallucinated cases cited in front of a judge that it would be embarrassing enough to stop. Turns out nope.

Imagine doctors being told most of their diagnosis has to be based on a magic 8ball, or they're fired. Thats what they're doing to bigcorp software devs.

I'm lucky enough to run my own company, but if I was looking for work and this was a requirement, I wouldn't know how to handle it.

Neil Ross

@neilross.dev