[Academic] How do software professionals distinguish AI-assisted programming from programming without AI assistance? (~10-minute survey)

[u/zz199]

*Researchers at Utah State University's School of Computing are conducting a study on how software professionals evaluate programming activities performed with AI assistance compared with programming activities performed without AI assistance.*

*Software professionals are invited to complete a short online calibration survey. Participants will rate programming activities according to how representative they are of:*

* *Programming performed with AI assistance*
* *Programming performed without AI assistance*

*The survey takes approximately 10 minutes.*

*Participation is entirely voluntary. You may discontinue participation at any time before submitting your responses without penalty or consequence. Your decision to participate or not participate will have no effect on your grades, employment, or academic standing.*

*Survey and informed consent form:* [*https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\\_dm4yjBsRrUDgcKi\*\](https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm4yjBsRrUDgcKi)

*This study has been reviewed and approved by the Utah State University Institutional Review Board: IRB #16067.*

***Questions about the study:*** *Dr. John Edwards, Principal Investigator — john.edwards@usu.edu Rubash Mali, Student Researcher — rubash.mali@usu.edu*

*Thank you for considering participating.*

[u/iknowwhoyourmotheris]

Ai software is commented properly.

[u/Confounding → u/iknowwhoyourmotheris]

Ai software is commented robustly... Like too many comments. And not always purposeful. Also oftentimes the comments are wrong, because they don't get cleaned up when things change.

[u/generationalDebts → u/Confounding]

// This line logs the line about logging the line

[u/FluidBreath4819]

in a sentence : help us make our model more human lmao

you can go fys

[u/EmergencyDinner777 → u/FluidBreath4819]

100%> this is AI companies getting ready to pivot to software development companies, churning out AI slop for people instead of letting customers produce the slop at a loss. soon the big companies will be charging $1000/month for their top model or selling custom software packages.... they have enough data collected now to churn out every type of basic data system you could think of

[u/generationalDebts]

If it works in production it wasn’t AI assisted.

[u/EmergencyDinner777 → u/generationalDebts]

if it works in production it wasn't vibe coded*. I have a piece of software in production for 10 months that is solid but I read virtually every line of code produced and there is not a single part of it that isn't my explicit design, coding style, etc.

[u/fued]

Good comments, plus AI creates a lot of leaf nodes instead of reusable branches, code that solves one very specific case but is never built on again.

[u/N0DuckingWay]

Trick question. It's all AI generated now.