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25% of all new code written at all? Sure, I guess.
25% of all new code that actually gets used in a real product, not just tested in an IDE? Bullshit.
I’ve read exactly the opposite article a few days ago:
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html
I really don’t believe the headline. Google has thousands of teams of engineers that are writing code for dozens or hundreds of different products… There’s no way all of them are generating anywhere near 25% of their new code via AI.
Unless they’re doing something like generating massive test fixtures or training data sets using AI and classifying them as “code” 🤔
I really don’t believe the headline.
The The company had a strong quarter thanks in large part to AI. part is what makes it sound strange to me, sounds like shareholder egostrking.
That said all they need to do is mandate use of AI during development like my company’s done and they can boast this kind of bullshit easily.
How often does a solution need “new” code and not “basically the same code as a previous issue but with two small details changed”? This is a genuine question, I have only ever coded as a hobby. But 25% of your work being essentially just copy pasted sounds plausible, and that’s sorta all LLMs are doing, right?
Now they can fill new holes at the google graveyard at twice the speed!
Makes sense considering how shitty Google products have become.
Not disappointed by The Verge, first paragraph paraphrases the title with no source and the following is just off topic.
The source for first paragraph: https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earnings-q3-2024/
Ah, indeed:
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.
Sounds like bs to me, comes across as marketing talk to promote their AI offerings.
