AI chatbots are still struggling to reliably develop software
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-04-08 09:16
NEW YORK: It's long been assumed that low-level software developers are set to be in the first wave of professions to be made redundant by artificial intelligence. But three years since the advent of AI in the workplace, it appears that AI coding tools are still finding even basic software development to be a struggle. Researchers at Canada's University of Waterloo are questioning "how reliably AI systems can assist developers" following recent research into the matter. The latest advances have seen big players such as Anthropic, Google and OpenAI introduce what some call "structured outputs" - fine tunings that compel chatbots to follow established coding formats such as JSON and XML. But the coding skill of AI "is not as reliable as many developers had hoped," according to the Waterloo team, which found a 75% accuracy to be the best the most advanced models could manage. In other ...
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