I don't know who made those numbers up, but for me... I can almost certainly guarantuee, I have never been so relaxed before. Doing multiple paid projects simultaneously due to AI, still leaning back, customer's are happy. I can confidently say: if you know how to leverage it properly, you can be both more efficient and relaxed at the same time. I'd also argue, if you use a combination of SOTA models to code and review and put in some own thoughts, too, then code is also GG.
But I don't really understand why MAREF is supposed to be the answer. If we adopt MAREF, then to pass MAREF, those metrics become the target, right? But let's think about Goodhart's Law: 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.' AI will just produce all sorts of bad code just to pass those checks. If you tighten things too much, people will resort to workarounds just to fit through that narrow gap.
And is all GENAIcode garbage? Honestly, I don't think so. I agree that in the long term, if AI training data gets contaminated, it will degrade, but clearly code that has been reviewed by humans is actually better. The case of AlphaDev is a good example. Optimizations like sort 3, 4, and 5 were discovered precisely because they were found by AI.
If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to just create an open source project that only accepts human‑written code and funnel all the funding into that? In other words, 'people who create uncontaminated AI datasets'
Controversial default to say the least.
To use an AI-ism: HN isn't an AI blog dump, it's a community.
Also, water is wet and the sky is blue.
