Anthropic claims half of its agent tool calls are to do with software engineering - so are developers letting AI take over?
I've noticed a lot of companies that do software engineering are pushing for their employees to be familiar with using AI coding tools to help out with their software development tasks and increase productivity. So I think it's least partly due to company managers & executives wanting higher productivity (meaning lower development costs, since time is money).
Based on other things I have read, I agree with this assessment. I do not think it is the developers that are letting it take over so much as their management.
I think one of the nicest things, though, is that the AI tools can help you f build failures. It can be tedious to try to find out what could be causing errors during a build process and fix them all.
I was able to use it in a similar manner on a project I didn't code. It
was able to figure out that the issues were caused by updates to a library
it was using (that required code changes) and updates to GCC (where it is
no longer as forgiving). It is very nice for that.
Mike
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