--- title: Is AI Destroying Software Development? | daily.dev description: A principal scientist at Adobe presents a data-driven critique of AI coding tools, examining multiple studies on productivity and code quality. Research shows... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/is-ai-destroying-software-development--hozmrylbq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Is AI Destroying Software Development? | daily.dev og:description: A principal scientist at Adobe presents a data-driven critique of AI coding tools, examining multiple studies on productivity and code quality. Research shows... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-ai-destroying-software-development--hozmrylbq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hoZmrylBQ.png og:image:alt: Is AI Destroying Software Development? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is AI Destroying Software Development? **[C\+\+Online](https://daily.dev/sources/cpponline)** · 45 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A principal scientist at Adobe presents a data-driven critique of AI coding tools, examining multiple studies on productivity and code quality. Research shows productivity gains are modest (15-26%) or even negative in some cases, while AI-generated code shows 75% higher logic/correctness issues, 41% higher revision rates, and 45% of AI-solved tasks produce security flaws. The talk argues that software quality will become the key competitive differentiator as AI lowers the cost of producing mediocre code. Drawing on Tony Hoare's 1976 paper, it emphasizes that great software engineering means deeply understanding customer problems — something no AI tool can replace — and that AI should only be adopted after engineers thoroughly understand its tradeoffs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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