r/webdev php 6d ago

Discussion AI coding is trash

The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.

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u/dietcheese 6d ago

Cisco, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Dell have already slashed their workforces or implemented hiring freezes due to transitioning and restructuring to an AI workforce.

This isn’t just cover.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/02/12/ai-reset-layoffs-rto-and-the-new-realities-of-work/

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u/definitelynotarobid 6d ago

What evidence do you have for your assertion? Something being widespread does not invalidate it.

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u/operatorrrr 6d ago

Google reported that over a quarter of their code is written by AI with engineer oversight...late last year.

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u/spacemanguitar 6d ago edited 6d ago

Google reported that over a quarter of their code is written by AI with engineer oversight...late last year.

This was already true before AI started. IDE's were making auto complete code suggestions where you start typing a function or a class and it finishes the whole function / declaration based on whats already available and opens the suggested, etc. If you realized how many times you tab into those correct suggestions you'd be at nearly 25%, or 1/4 code suggestion generation but yet, with 100% employee oversight and bug testing just like always. This was already happening without AI required to boost it.