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

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:39 AM UTC

ks2048 wrote: post #10

ausbah wrote: post #3

i would be may more impressed if LLMs could do code compression. more code == more things that can break, and when llms can generate boatloads of it with a click you can imagine what might happen

I agree. It seems like counting lines of generated code is like counting bytes/instructions of compiled code - who cares? If “code” becomes prompts, then AI should lead to much smaller code than before. I’m aware that the difference is that AI-generated code can be read and modified by humans. But that quantity is bad because humans have to understand it to read or modify it.

Post by cryptoz » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:43 AM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #26

dmix wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If 25% of your code is boilerplate, you have a serious architectural problem. That said, I've seen even higher ratios. But never in any place that survived for long.

Post by microtherion » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:45 AM UTC

Post by twarge » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:46 AM UTC

an_d_rew wrote: post #12

Huh. That may explain why google search has, in the past couple of months, become so unusable for me that I switched (happily) to kagi.

Post by YPPH » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:46 AM UTC

pyuser583 wrote: post #21

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