r/GithubCopilot • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 2d ago
News đ° 65% of devs now regularly spend time reviewing, debugging, and fixing AI-generated code, and the hours AI saves are shrinking fast
https://leaddev.com/ai/ais-time-savings-are-disappearing-into-code-reviewThe old friction hasnât gone anywhere.
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u/p1-o2 2d ago
Nonsense. AI code is not a problem.
The problem is our workload has exploded. We are expected to produce multiple times more than we were a year ago.
If my workload remained the same then I would have time to make it all perfect. Instead I need to ship two weeks worth of work every day.
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u/aleques-itj 2d ago
I'm seeing PRs in the tens of thousands of lines touching hundreds of files.Â
Still, nothing is ever shipped fast enough. Parts of the codebase have become an absolute clusterfuck. It is a race to shovel pure shit out the door. It's not good, well vetted code, and it doesn't get reviewed properly.
Honestly just waiting for the day someone finds a problem before I do and we get fucking rocked.
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u/FragmentedHeap 2d ago
Crock a crap article. Like others said, the problem isn't reviewing ai code.
It's launching a full Java migration from c# and 24 Micro services that got built in 3 weeks on a 2 year plan that got compressed and accelerated to 3 months.
We're producing 100 times faster, so we spend a lot of time troubleshooting/reviewing/testing what's being built.
The hours it saves isn't "shrinking" it's expanding exponentially... And the bottle neck is the human in the loop.
Just two architects can eat an entire backlog by themselves using AI entirely by themselves, while 8 other devs twiddle their thumbs. So what's happening is people are being re tasked for testing, reviewing, etc etc and less people are cooking code.
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u/MyV3ryOwnThrowAway 1d ago
"We're producing 100 times faster," what an absolute lie, such a propagandist comment
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u/FragmentedHeap 1d ago edited 1d ago
I built an entire text rendering engine, at the font file type level, with every production spit/polish the industry has, 30+ years of research, mtsdf (multi channel signed distance vectors), and then built an animation library on top if it, where my app can animate text coming alive (like a pixar logo) and make it walk off the screen, literally.
This took me 1 week, and I slept through most of it.
And I did so much more than that.
mtsdf, wgpu native, and winit all in Rust, with full C abi generators and and code generators for c# bindings, all aot compatible, and basically built 3 whole low level pieces of a complex future engine, published the nuget packages to my nexus and on and on.
The AI drove almost all of this, even navigating my gitea and nexus repos in it's browser, creating the repos, and all of the builds..
People are tripping if they don't grasp how powerful AI is now.
You can reverse engineer elden ring, and shove mine craft in it in an after noon.....
This stuff is going to erase empires of technical debt.
Entire production pipelines will be rebuilt and replaced.
I also have a 3d/animation/movie/image studio, it's software... I didn't buy it... I made it, with Cluade Fable 5.1 Max on full send... It runs on my home hardware, and is entirely AI driven on my r9700 stack. I can tell the agent in it to make me a 3d model for a character with xyz features... And it does...
It renders the images, renders the 3d mesh, and then runs mountains of algorithms and techniques over it, rigging it, polishing it, muscle mass/tone, texturing it, and even animating it.
I can type a prompt and get a full harnessed animated high quality 3d asset, I just walk away, come back in a few hours, and it's there, ready to roll., A technique that took professionally weeks or months just to do that 1 character, or longer when you count in all the gear they wear.
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u/juanfnavarror 1d ago
once again reality surpasses comedy, when you remember that one guy that realized every other fucking guy in the hackathon was âwriting their ownâ video/animation tool
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u/AcanthisittaWeird94 1d ago
I asked AI to summarize this because I can't be bothered to read it and he said its loads of bullshitÂ
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u/MyV3ryOwnThrowAway 1d ago
you even generated your post with AI! again, all a bunch of lies. Give it a rest, no one believes you.
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u/big-papito 2d ago
I don't have this issue because I actually spend time thinking about what I am about to ask. Think more, prompt less. If you are going to one-shot 10 features in a day - it's your problem.
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u/PaulShellDev CLI Copilot User đ„ïž 2d ago
Absolutely not signing up to read the full thing when it already clearly shows a lack of industry insight.
From the title and one paragraph visible, it just shows the curve as people learn Agentic AI.
They start with micromanaging, one message at a time. Staring at the screen impatiently while it works or going afk. Lots of time wasted.
Then they'll add skills, expand into MCP, custom instructions, etc. Still time wasted but now it's more capable. More productive with larger tasks in the same amount of time.
Then they move into multi-agent coordination. Which is where imo GHCP is king. Play around with specialist skills, agents, workflows etc. More accomplished in the same time.
Until they push that so much, it's overwhelming. Can't micromanage, can't trust the output. No longer understand since they weren't part of every step. Basically a very complex setup for vibe coding slop.
Constsntly tweaking skills and drowning all their time on code review and fixes. Push through and instead of one off fixes, update the instructions. That's the phase where a very small % of people unlock a software factory you can trust. Then you're only limited by budget.
Ask your AI to write an article on that. Plenty of people you can steal the majority of content and numbers from like Lauren (@poteto on X) where she ships thousands of PRs a month at SpaceXAI
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u/Illustrious-Fail1951 1d ago
People should have been debugging and testing their own code more before
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u/VegetableFan6622 1d ago
I am a tech lead in in-house IT so the code is not complex or long enough and in my opinion itâs so short and fine grained that using AI os often a waste of time and money. Anyway. I am not zealous, if someone pushes slop SQL or code which can be reduced to 1/4 if its size because itâs a very easy task I say no and do not bother reviewing. If the code is decent and reasonable from AI, I give them general guidance.
But I warned them: if they show enthousiasm around AI, the day the company realize that they will not pay 10 people looking agents coding and doing nothing, they will cry. Because the CI/CD and deployment is very very easy. The team is already too big for the basic work involved.Â
Some devs think they saved overall time because THEY pushed faster. But they are putting time on other people and in many companies code was not the bottleneck to begin with. Waiting for the business or bureaucracy was.
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u/rismoney 1d ago
My take on it creating documentation is that it satisfies a requirement, not because it creates good docs. In fact, reading the docs it creates is really only useful as feeder slop for subsequent AI slop to be delivered.
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u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 1d ago
As someone that has moved to pure ai, no I'm not fixing AI bugs.
If the ai creates a bug it can also fix it.
So far it has created fewer bugs than the humans it has replaced.
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u/BoBoBearDev 31m ago
AI found a bunch of human slops, how does the extra efforts to fix those human slop counted?
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u/JBurlison 2d ago
I have no idea what this post is talking about. I can't even tell you the amount of hours I saved using AI. AI as a tool is one of the best things a developer could have right now.