# A Commentary on the Challenges and "70% Problem" of AI-Assisted Coding

DevFeed: [A Commentary on the Challenges and "70% Problem" of AI-Assisted Coding](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/worth-reading-hard-truths-about-ai-assisted-coding-11109.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/12/worth-reading-ai-assisted-coding/>)

Published: 2024-12-14T17:02:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-assisted-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [worth-reading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/worth-reading.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary recommends Addy Osmani's overview of AI-assisted coding challenges. It highlights the analogy of AI as an eager junior developer and the "70% problem," in which the final 30% can be frustrating, while noting similar ideas about generating device configurations or troubleshooting networks.

## Source excerpt

Addy Osmani published an excellent overview of the challenges of AI-assisted coding. They apply equally well to the "AI will generate device configurations for me" or "AI will troubleshoot my network" ideas (ignoring for the moment the impact of the orders-of-magnitude smaller training set), so it's definitely worth reading. I particularly liked the "AI is like having a very eager junior developer on your team" take, as well as the description of the "70% problem" (AI will get you 70% there, but the last 30% will be frustrating) - a phenomenon perfectly illustrated by the following diagram by Forrest Brazeal: Read more ...