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Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats - The force-feeding will continue until morale improves (www.theregister.com)
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Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How do they measure it?

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Genuinely no idea. Which makes it even more terrifying. I suspect Copilot github stats

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

That is delightfully gameable. Just don't do it all at once. ;-)

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

They asked AI to do it.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Makes me think used tokens, which is very easy to fake.

If I were in a malicious environment, I'd be interested in gaming the system, excessively producing AI code even if I never use it.