My personal experience: I shipped multiple features at work in the past 6 months that I simply wouldn’t have tried shipping otherwise, since my day job is mostly management. AI wrote maybe 80% of the code, I spent a bit of time rewriting some parts. No major bugs so far (ironically, the one big bug the team had to revert was done entirely by me)
I can guarantee I wouldn’t have shipped ANY of it, since it’d require focus blocks I simply don’t have on the job.
I’m also about to ship a Mac app that’s heavily vibecoded. I wouldn’t even try without AI, since I’m not a Swift developer.
Those aren’t “illusions” of performance. I imagine it’s hard to gauge every single scenario, and sensationalist takes like this research elicit an emotional response on the anti-AI crowd, but denying the impact is simply ignorance at this point…
I can guarantee I wouldn’t have shipped ANY of it, since it’d require focus blocks I simply don’t have on the job.
I’m also about to ship a Mac app that’s heavily vibecoded. I wouldn’t even try without AI, since I’m not a Swift developer.
Those aren’t “illusions” of performance. I imagine it’s hard to gauge every single scenario, and sensationalist takes like this research elicit an emotional response on the anti-AI crowd, but denying the impact is simply ignorance at this point…