Developer Frustration with AI-Generated Code Quality in Software Development
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Summary
A software developer expresses frustration with the proliferation of AI-generated code in professional settings, observing that 8 companies have embraced AI tools for coding, testing, and code reviews over the past three months. The author criticizes the poor quality of AI-generated pull request descriptions and tests, noting that traditional linters and spell checkers provide better suggestions than current AI coding assistants.
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· 4 pulledBetween code reviews, and AI generated rubbish, I've had it
Whether it's people relying on AI to write pull request descriptions (that are crap by the way), or using it to generate tests.. I'm sick of it
The last three months I've watched at least 8 companies embrace AI generated pip for coding, testing, and code reviews
Honestly, the best suggestions I've seen are found by linters in CI, and spell checkers
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