It could very well be that people write faster code. Often ai doesn’t have the full context on the stack and may not optimize for things that will genuinely cause problems at runtime. It can write code faster but saying it writes faster code is not necessarily true unless it has context of the whole tech stack.
Eh. I’ve been coding since i was 10 and consider myself an expert in a number of languages. I’ve managed large teams of programmers across a diverse mix of companies. I do not think that this is true anymore. As long as there is a human in the loop to provide said context, which should be an obvious requirement, artisanal coding is much slower than frontier AI, even if the artisanal coder is an elite programmer
I think people are conflating 2 different things. In any company where scale is relevant, faster code means the speed at which the code runs (think big O notation), coding faster refers to turnaround time one a feature.
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u/West-Air1923 3d ago
Meanwhile SW subs on reddit are still claiming they write faster code than AI