Not my code though. It contains a shit ton of bugs. When I am able to write some of course.
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I'll go ahead and file this under "duh".
This is news?
No shit, Sherlock (c)
But you see. That’s the solution. Now you pay foreigners to clean up the generated code by offshoring the engineers. At 1/100 the cost.
Microsoft: Let's have it rebuild our most well known product from the ground up!
Hey don't worry, just get a faster CPU with even more cores and maybe a terabyte or three of RAM to hold all the new layers of abstraction and cruft to fix all that!
AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output
Yeah. No shit. I used an LLM's "help" to make fin.
It got me reading and debugging more than 10 times the [bad] code, per day, than I had in the entire prior 10 years of using fish. [And reading the documentation way more too, learning a lot.]
... more bugs and errors than human output
However, it's not necessarily a bad thing, with AI improving efficiency across the initial stages of code generation.
Oh but it's so effortless. HA! Debugging takes a lot more effort. And then still have to just re-write it all yourself any way.
Still, it's a good learning experience.
Dear AI,
Thanks for being so shit.
Taught me a lot.
So this article is basically a puff piece for Code Rabbit, a company that sells AI code review tooling/services. They studied 470 merge/pull requests, 320 AI and 150 human control. They don't specify what projects, which model, or when, at least without signing up to get their full "white paper". For all that's said this could be GPT 4 from 2024.
I'm a professional developer, and currently by volume I'm confident latest models, Claude 4.5 Opus, GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 Pro, are able to write better, cleaner code than me. They still need high level and architectural guidance, and sometimes overt intervention, but on average they can do it better, faster, and cheaper than me.
A lot of articles and forums posts like this feel like cope. I'm not happy about it, but pretending it's not happening isn't gonna keep me employed.
Source of the article: https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report
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Shocker.