Software developers say AI tools have increased their workload rather than reducing it
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Software developer Gergely Orosz questions why he is working more despite AI tools, quoting Sam Newman's view that AI was meant to free developers from drudgery.
Newman says most developers are doing more work, with more context switching and a loss of the big picture. The quoted post adds that AI assistants are not human partners and that pairing with them fragments the shared mental model of a program.
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AISoftware developer Gergely Orosz questions why he is working more despite AI tools, quoting Sam Newman's view that AI was meant to free developers from drudgery. Newman says most developers are doing more work, with more context switching and a loss of the big picture. The quoted post adds that AI assistants are not human partners and that pairing with them fragments the shared mental model of a program.
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