Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
I really don’t believe the headline. Google writes a lot of code across hundreds of teams… 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 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.
That said all they need to do is mandate use of AI during development
Wtf does that mean? Like what if you know exactly what you want to do? Do you have to ask GPT to review your code?
Where i work they had us use AI with the IDEs.
I’d say about 20% of the times what it suggests is actually usable.
That’s autocomplete on steroids for you.
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?
Reusable code is usually pulled out into a library and reused that way, rather than copied and pasted into a new project. You might copy and paste some boilerplate to new projects but it wouldn’t be anywhere near 25% of the code.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I wonder if “code” means pull requests and they have a load of automated ones to update versions of external and internal libraries
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Given the size of lockfiles this would not surprise me but who the hell counts lock files code. Their barely configs :/.