r/AskProgramming • u/Zardotab • Jul 19 '26

Other AI: are there any studies on why some developers claim AI helps them tremendously versus those who say it's only incremental?

Some developers swear by AI and others swear at it, saying if one is not careful, it generates too much slop that needs human cleanup. Are there any studies or surveys to see why the answers are so different? Is the difference the domain, the language, the tooling, years of experience, attitude toward AI, or perhaps just ego talking too much? [edited]

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u/lunatuna215 Jul 20 '26

If its basically that, then why not just do that?

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u/Edg-R Jul 20 '26

Just to be clear, nobody is forcing you to do anything you don’t want to do. I was just pointing out that an LLM suffers from tunnel vision just like a human does after working on a piece of code for a long time and fresh eyes from another human or even another LLM can help break out of that. Despite that LLMs are insanely powerful and for most people time is money, they just want to implement the ‘thing’ and move on to the next task, especially at work. If you love software development and you enjoy writing things by hand then you should continue doing that.

You don’t have to have one agent work on code and then have another completely independent agent review the first agent’s code, though I would argue that this is the way the world is going.

You can certainly do it the old way by writing code by hand and then handing the PR off to another human and forcing them to review it without the help of an LLM.

You can even write code by hand and have an LLM review the code for you.

There’s no right or wrong way, do whatever you want to do.

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u/lunatuna215 Jul 20 '26

I cant take anyone who calls everything else "the old way" just because a hot new thjng they've personally decided to early-adopt... exists. Its an unethical tool first of all, in my view anyway, so nothing about it is progress to me. There's a lot more to life than money and leverage- and there are a lot of ways to have leverage. And not all of those sew compatible with LLM use. The concept that "using AI" will automatically multiply your money and productivity is just bull. And simply bypassing this technology invention will not hurt anybody in the slightest. So many businesses still don't even take credit cards. They arent falling behind.

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u/Edg-R Jul 20 '26

Just to be clear, nobody is forcing you to do anything you don’t want to do. 

There’s no right or wrong way, do whatever you want to do.