A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
I can believe that an agent can do 80% of a competent job. But the 80/20 rule posits that the 20% is the hard part, the part that actually justifies your salary. If a human is not going to go in and do that 20% (which might be 80% of the effort), then having the AI do the easiest 80% doesn’t gain you anything at all.
It depends on the task. Oneshotting 80% of the new feature and then failing to pick up on details can leave hard part.
But oneshotting even 30% of UI tests based on QA regression means you have 30% of regression covered. Ofc you need to verify if the test is indeed covering the test case, and for a big volume of tests it takes time, but it’s nowhere near what it takes to actually write the tests.