One of the weirdest things about the whole AI boom is the mass formation psychosis where everyone started acting like lines of code written was an important metric for software development productivity.
We've known for decades that more lines of code isn't good. Bill Gates was joking about it in the OS/2 days!
We've known for decades that the actual creation of the code is the smallest part of an actual software developer's job.
We've known for decades that "every line of code is a business decision" that has to be written with an understanding of the underlying goal, and the hardest part of training up software engineers is making them understand that.
We threw all that out because "the chatbox writes code really fast, software is a solved problem!"
We've known for decades that more lines of code isn't good. Bill Gates was joking about it in the OS/2 days!
We've known for decades that the actual creation of the code is the smallest part of an actual software developer's job.
We've known for decades that "every line of code is a business decision" that has to be written with an understanding of the underlying goal, and the hardest part of training up software engineers is making them understand that.
We threw all that out because "the chatbox writes code really fast, software is a solved problem!"