Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:36 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #4

When I was there, way more than 25% of the code was copying one proto into another proto, or so people complained. What sort of memes are people making now that this task has been automated?

Post by Tiktaalik » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

Post by marcosdumay » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

dmix wrote: post #18

kev009 wrote: post #11

I would hope a CEO, especially a technical one, would have enough sense to couple that statement to some useful business metric, because in isolation it might be announcement of public humiliation.

The elitism of programmers who think the boilerplate code they write for 25% of the job, that's already been written before by 1000 other people before, is in fact a valuable use of company time to write by hand again. IMO it's only really an issue if a competent human wasn't involved in the process, basically a person who could have written it if needed, then they do the work connecting it to the useful stuff, and h…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:38 AM UTC

tylerchilds wrote: post #8

if the golden rule is that code is a liability, what does this headline imply?

Post by calmbonsai » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:39 AM UTC