The Digital Press

Claims that AI is rapidly replacing human programmers in major companies like Microsoft and Meta are not strongly supported by evidence in open source contributions. Despite hype from CEOs, real-world examples of AI writing complex, production-quality code in public projects remain scarce.

Why it matters: AI coding hype contrasts with a lack of substantial, AI-generated open source pull requests in mature projects.

The big picture: Experienced developers find AI helpful for simple tasks, but AI struggles with complex, non-trivial bugs and corner cases.

The stakes: Overreliance on AI code without expert oversight risks introducing errors and wasted effort, especially in mission-critical software.

Commenters say: Many agree AI coding is overhyped; it helps in small or routine tasks but is far from replacing skilled programmers.