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

Post by Sparkyte » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 6:27 PM UTC

NotAnOtter wrote: post #653

asdfman123 wrote: post #398

I work for Google, and I just got done with my work day. I was just writing I guess what you'd call "AI generated code." But the code completion engine is basically just good at finishing the lines I'm writing. If I'm writing "function getAc..." it's smart enough to complete to "function getActionHandler()", and maybe suggest the correct arguments and a decent jsdoc comment. So basically, it's a helpful productivity…

I also work at google (until last Friday). Agree with what you said. My thoughts are 1. This quote is clearly meant to exaggerate reality, and they are likely including things like fully automated CL/PR's which have been around for a decade as "AI generated". 2. I stated before that if a team of 10 is equally as productive as a team of 8 utilizing things like copilot, it's fair to say "AI replaced 2 engineers", in my…

Post by valval » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 6:41 PM UTC

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valval wrote: post #94

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You can come up with measures for it and then watch them, that’s for sure.

when metric becomes the target it ceases to be a good metric. when discovered how it works developers will type the first character immediately after opening the log. edit: typo

Post by ethbr1 » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 7:06 PM UTC

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>> Even if that's been happening, I don't think it would be politically savvy to admit it. When I was working in RPA (robotic process automation) about 7 years ago, we were explicitly told not to say "You can reduce your team size by having use develop an automation that handles what they're doing!" Even back then we were told to talk about how RPA (and by proxy AI) empowers your team to focus on the really important…

> Even back then we were told to talk about how RPA (and by proxy AI) empowers your team to focus on the really important things. As a non-politically savy person ;-) I have a feeling that this is a similarly dangerous message, since what prevents many teams to focus on really important things is often far too long meetings with managers and similar "important" stakeholders.

Post by gorjusborg » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 7:16 PM UTC

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> Most programming is trivial That's a bold statement, and incorrect, in my opinion. At a junior level software development can be about churning out trivial code in a previously defined box. I don't think its fair to call that 'most programming'.

Think of all the menial stuff you must perform regardless of experience level. E.g. you change the return type of a function and now you have to unpack the results slightly differently. Traditional automated tools fail at this. But if you show some examples to Cursor, it quickly catches on to the pattern and start autocompleting semi-automatically (semi because you still have to put the cursor to the right place but…

Post by fuzztester » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 8:18 PM UTC

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To err is human. To err at scale is AI.

I fear that we'll see a lot of humans err at scale next Tuesday. Global warming is another example of human error at scale.