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Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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Re: Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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Post by brador »

truncate wrote: post #5

Not that I don't believe its possible to fix a lot of bugs, I also wonder what the actual dynamic was. Were the people in team working much more than usual as well? Given its Google, I wouldn't be surprised if there was an "internal push" to fix more bugs over next X sprints so that they can publish this blog and some manager can show impact and AI adaption to his superior.

More likely just getting ahead of the AI attacks before they hit. The threat risk increase caused by AI has gone off the chart.

Re: Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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Post by ikekkdcjkfke »

mw888 wrote: post #3

AI critique often funnels itself into a narrow bucket: creating code blindly with AI is bad. That's easy to grant. Adversarial testing, checking developer assumptions, refactor suggestions , small dev tools and even some guided coding all sit on the other side of the spectrum of what you can do with coding and AI. For larger and larger codebases even simple things like tracing dependencies or behavior might be greatl…

Yes. AI is a tool, it’s supposed to be used a certain way, anything else is a misunderstanding og what AI is. You have to aim it in the direction you want it to go, not expect it to solve all your problems magically

Re: Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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Post by VBprogrammer »

I've recently been using AI a lot for performance optimisation during a particularly busy period at work. I would say it was almost completely useless at the high-level direction - it would point out suspicious parts of SQL queries for example but on back to back testing these almost never resulted in any performance change.

In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that it made making the actual changes I identified much easier (move these joins into a CTE etc) it would have been a detriment. Not only did I get sidetracked by a bunch of useless suggestions but I also had to put up with others dumping their raw AI output at me as if it was somehow a meaningful contribution.

Re: Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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Post by echelon »

onesandofgrain wrote: post #13
geek_at wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

won't forgive them either for making it harder to filter out ads

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You see, grandma is supposed to see the ads and buy the Mighty Putty. I'm supposed to get the adblock version. That's just how the world works.

Re: Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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Post by edhelas »

kotaKat wrote: post #10

Seems like they have enough AI they could find a way to put ManifestV2 back into the browser and fix things we actually wanted instead of putting more bullshit "AI improvements" we didn't?

If only there was alternative browsers...
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