Thoughts on "25% of Google's production code is AI generated"
In the earnings call sundar mentioned "Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster"
No question here, just thoughts, comments, concerns?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/11/01/ai-code-and-the-future-of-software-engineers/
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Discussion
(3 comments)- 220 days agoTech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
What really matters is business value.
Code can certainly create business value, but it's possible to write tons of code and still end with nothing. So I'm interested to hear if product velocity went up. Also, how maintainable is the code?
Relatedly, the 25% stat is interesting since I made a video called 50% Of Engineering Is Now Easy - How To Integrate AI Into Your Workflow
- 220 days agoJunior SWE [OP]Taro Community
Thanks all for the responses. Would be awsome if a googler could pitch in!
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22 days agoEngineer @ RobinhoodI've written over hundreds of thousands lines of code in seconds by code genning json migration files and lint baseline xml files. Does that count as writing code? I'd imagine Google's AI coders are doing something similar with the "code" they touch.
