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Speed is an illusion!
The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants
AI coding assistants promise speed, but do they deliver? Explore data, developer insights, and security risks showing why AI feels faster but often slows production. Learn where tools like Cursor and Claude Code help, and where they fail.
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Getting V1 produced by an AI LLM is fast. Bug-fixing V1, V2, V3, V4, and V5? No so fast.Speed is an illusion!
The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants
AI coding assistants promise speed, but do they deliver? Explore data, developer insights, and security risks showing why AI feels faster but often slows production. Learn where tools like Cursor and Claude Code help, and where they fail.www.cerbos.dev
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No kidding. A favorite saying of mine: "No matter how fast something is, it is always too slow".
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It's taken me a long time to realise this fact about AI, and although I have come to this conclusion myself, after many months working closely with AI, I hadn't really identified this nuanced limitation of AI as a thing, I just felt that AI was intentionally stupid? Annoyingly lacking in insight?
As the human member of the pair,
I, (you) you have to provide the insight, the leaps for the construction of any new project... It's what you have always done as a programmer, it's what makes you a good programmer, and it's the most rewarding part of programming!
The video indicates that AI is not expected to achieve levels of insight equal to a human for at least four or five years, so there is plenty for any programmer with the gift of insight, plenty of work....
And what is your work? The AI will have a depth of knowledge equal to and often greater than the best programmers... And it will offer you solutions that you have no idea of how they work, but your insight your experience will trigger that instinct, "I don't like that! That feels dangerous" and you steer the AI to another solution.. that's the work, that's the job, and any one on this forum who has developed their own projects will have this in abundance...
So it's not the end of the line for programmers, it's the beginning, and there's no steep learning curve, (that was the scary part), but the AI leverages that aspect...
You will not become an expert Python programmer, ever, but teaming up with an AI, applying your hard won intuition and insight will make you an unbeatable pair!
As the human member of the pair,
I, (you) you have to provide the insight, the leaps for the construction of any new project... It's what you have always done as a programmer, it's what makes you a good programmer, and it's the most rewarding part of programming!
The video indicates that AI is not expected to achieve levels of insight equal to a human for at least four or five years, so there is plenty for any programmer with the gift of insight, plenty of work....
And what is your work? The AI will have a depth of knowledge equal to and often greater than the best programmers... And it will offer you solutions that you have no idea of how they work, but your insight your experience will trigger that instinct, "I don't like that! That feels dangerous" and you steer the AI to another solution.. that's the work, that's the job, and any one on this forum who has developed their own projects will have this in abundance...
So it's not the end of the line for programmers, it's the beginning, and there's no steep learning curve, (that was the scary part), but the AI leverages that aspect...
You will not become an expert Python programmer, ever, but teaming up with an AI, applying your hard won intuition and insight will make you an unbeatable pair!
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The speaker in the video:-
Nobel Prize winner, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. In 2024, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Jumper for developing AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts protein structures, revolutionizing biology and drug discovery. This is confirmed by official sources like the Nobel Foundation and DeepMind's announcement, with no more recent prestigious award found for 2025.
Nobel Prize winner, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. In 2024, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Jumper for developing AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts protein structures, revolutionizing biology and drug discovery. This is confirmed by official sources like the Nobel Foundation and DeepMind's announcement, with no more recent prestigious award found for 2025.
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We have to remember that there is an inherent limitation with AI. I learned this fact before 1975.
Artificial Intelligence cannot cope with natural stupidity. And, sadly, according to comedian Ron White, "You can fix ugly, but you can't fix stupid."
It is great to tell people that "everyone should use AI" - but that requires them to first be able to ask an intelligent question. Recall that IQ tests are statistically based. There is an inherent underlying assumption that, whatever is actually measured, a 100 IQ is "average intelligence." Which means that if you are as dumb as a box of rocks, AI might not work well for you.
Artificial Intelligence cannot cope with natural stupidity. And, sadly, according to comedian Ron White, "You can fix ugly, but you can't fix stupid."
It is great to tell people that "everyone should use AI" - but that requires them to first be able to ask an intelligent question. Recall that IQ tests are statistically based. There is an inherent underlying assumption that, whatever is actually measured, a 100 IQ is "average intelligence." Which means that if you are as dumb as a box of rocks, AI might not work well for you.
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The USA forces will reject applicants with an IQ of 82 or below I believe according to something Jordan Peterson said!
This is a very odd thing because you would think that they would want people stupid enough to charge the enemy in a head-on battle!
So what it tells you is- people with a low IQ are more dangerous to your own forces than the enemy....
You can imagine can't you, someone pulling the pin out of a grenade and throwing it the wrong way!
This is a very odd thing because you would think that they would want people stupid enough to charge the enemy in a head-on battle!
So what it tells you is- people with a low IQ are more dangerous to your own forces than the enemy....
You can imagine can't you, someone pulling the pin out of a grenade and throwing it the wrong way!
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As I heard in a discussion with Navy Chief Petty Officers, you have to be smart enough to follow commands and know WHY you must follow commands during wartime. Otherwise you dilute your warfighter's effectiveness. That is why the military doesn't want people with low IQ.
Many years ago (over 50), I went downtown to the office where the military draft was managed. Back then, on Canal Street in New Orleans and about 4 long blocks from the river banks. We all had to take the written test and some physical tests. I had been deferred for service because I was in college and the military liked college grads as potential officer candidates. However, when my college deferment expired (because I got my Bachelor's degree). The written test was no biggie. I think I got one thing wrong because they had a picture of a tool I had never seen before and didn't know what you would do with it.
Among my test group, one young man sat still, looking forlornly at his test sheet where he had not even entered his name. I truly felt sad for the young fellow because when the time was up and the sergeant picked up the sheets, I overheard a bit of the conversation. The guy couldn't read. He had gone through school with a learning disability and never managed to learn to read! I had a chance to ask the sergeant what would happen to him. Basically, at the time they WERE taking such people into a special training track that, if he stayed with it, would teach him some necessary skills including how to read. However, the sergeant also offered the opinion that the recruit was SO hampered by learning disabilities that he was not going to be accepted for service. That thought was sobering. I wished him well and privately grieved for a person who was going to have a very hard life.
At that time the military draft in the USA was a lottery. They drew birthdays against numbers 1-366 chosen in random order so that being drafted and sent to Vietnam was literally the luck of the draw. They drafted numbers up to 183 that year, but my draft lottery number was over 250 so they left me alone. That is why I continued on into graduate school.
Many years ago (over 50), I went downtown to the office where the military draft was managed. Back then, on Canal Street in New Orleans and about 4 long blocks from the river banks. We all had to take the written test and some physical tests. I had been deferred for service because I was in college and the military liked college grads as potential officer candidates. However, when my college deferment expired (because I got my Bachelor's degree). The written test was no biggie. I think I got one thing wrong because they had a picture of a tool I had never seen before and didn't know what you would do with it.
Among my test group, one young man sat still, looking forlornly at his test sheet where he had not even entered his name. I truly felt sad for the young fellow because when the time was up and the sergeant picked up the sheets, I overheard a bit of the conversation. The guy couldn't read. He had gone through school with a learning disability and never managed to learn to read! I had a chance to ask the sergeant what would happen to him. Basically, at the time they WERE taking such people into a special training track that, if he stayed with it, would teach him some necessary skills including how to read. However, the sergeant also offered the opinion that the recruit was SO hampered by learning disabilities that he was not going to be accepted for service. That thought was sobering. I wished him well and privately grieved for a person who was going to have a very hard life.
At that time the military draft in the USA was a lottery. They drew birthdays against numbers 1-366 chosen in random order so that being drafted and sent to Vietnam was literally the luck of the draw. They drafted numbers up to 183 that year, but my draft lottery number was over 250 so they left me alone. That is why I continued on into graduate school.
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Amplification of your own capabilities!
That's it! That's what I've been trying to say!
That's it! That's what I've been trying to say!
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