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Because saying "more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by free crowdsourcing from internet scraping" doesn't roll off the tongue as easily ;)
Coverage from NYT (11 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989256
Coverage from Verge (7 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989674
Coverage from CNBC (2 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989727
Does this AI actually improve their M&A somehow? Does it allow them to AI-write new software instead of buying it?
I don't get it.
CEO of company with AI product says, in earnings call, that nontrivial amount of code is generated by AI.. Do people think an earnings call is some kind of secret meeting where the marketing stops?
One thing that worries me about AI-generated code is that if there's an obscure bug that pops up later, there's no engineer to think "ok hang on, I remember something strange happening when I first wrote that code... let me have a look." Instead, there are only engineers who reviewed the code, which is of course a lot different from writing it.
> One thing that worries me about AI-generated code is that if there's an obscure bug that pops up later, there's no engineer to think "ok hang on, I remember something strange happening when I first wrote that code... let me have a look." Instead, there are only engineers who reviewed the code, which is of course a lot different from writing it. I feel this is a very weak argument against AI. Professional software d…
While this is very common, you also have professional software developers with a deep sense of ownership about a system: they animated it, so when it’s being quirky in particular ways, you have an almost supernatural sense of what branches it’s following. You don’t really get to internalise the logic of a program by reading it. It’s a byproduct of having to come up with it. When a part of that thinking is outsourced, some logic internalisation is lost.
CEO of company with AI product says, in earnings call, that nontrivial amount of code is generated by AI.. Do people think an earnings call is some kind of secret meeting where the marketing stops?
Nearly a quarter of HN submissions lately are just spammy ads for the AI sector. I seldom open them anymore, but I’ve noticed most of them get hundreds of comments. I wish people spent their time on something useful.