If AI is so good at coding where are the open source contributions?
a year ago
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- AI coding hype is prevalent, with claims from CEOs like Satya Nadella and Mark Zuckerberg about significant AI contributions to codebases.
- Open source projects show minimal evidence of substantial AI contributions, with few accepted pull requests and many requiring extensive revisions.
- Experienced developers can use AI effectively, but inexperienced users often produce low-quality or incorrect code.
- AI-generated code reviews in projects like Cockpit were found to be noisy and unhelpful, leading to their discontinuation.
- Open source communities often reject AI-generated contributions due to the influx of low-quality submissions and lack of understanding from submitters.
- Training data limitations suggest that AI-generated code quality may not improve significantly without major advancements or additional proprietary data.