“Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel”
study referenced: Can GenAI Actually Improve Developer Productivity? (requires email)
AI has simply weaponized copy/pasting stack overflow answers without reading them.
What do you mean by weaponizing?
When used in a metaphorical way like this, meaning code assistants are not literal weapons, it means to make a thing readily available to the masses. In context, my comment means that AI has streamlined the task of copy/pasting from stack overflow. You don’t even have to search for what you’re trying to do and the AI will use answers it’s scraped from the site to fill out your code for you.