Developer Code Writing Drops from 95% to <1% in Under a Year
cross__entropy · x · 2026-08-18
A developer shared a drastic shift in their workflow: less than a year ago, they were writing >95% of their code, but now they write less than 1%. In some projects, they have written 0 lines of code. This highlights the deep integration and impact of AI coding assistants on daily engineering work.
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