Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch

krimson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This ^

  “20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories”

  Now, if they had said “20%-30% of code written in the past 6 months…” I might buy that.

  The repositories are going to have all the current codebase, likely going back years now. AI generated code is barely viable at this point and really only pretty recently.

  No way 1/3rd of all current codebase is AI.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even 20% of new code would be a stretch unless they count every first iteration of code written by AI that needs to be replaced by a human later because it was plain wrong.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe they’re counting the six iterations of code it gives me as I tell it what’s wrong with each one.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        20% of code = 20 lines of production code.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Please move all comments from in-line to the line above, and add a separator line”

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  • TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They mean new code, as per the article. And they mean code gen and IntelliSence

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• takeda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They say that because they are selling it.

  And yeah, my experience is the same. The most frustrating is when writing in a typed python, and it gives answers that are clearly incorrect, making up attributes that don’t even exist etc.

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  • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My brother said his superior asked him to use more AI auto complete so that they can brag to investors that X percent of the company’s code is written by AI. This told me everything about the current state of this bullshit.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I didn’t RTA, but if they mean ALL code at MS, that just can’t be true. They have legacy stuff going back decades, beyond just their windows platform. There’s no way 30% of all their code is replaced or newly created by AI.

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• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “You are right, I made a mistake. Here is a better answer.” Continues to give wrong answers

  The exact same wrong answer. Co-Pilot is especially bad for that. I’m practically giving up using it outside of vs code because the actual copilot AI is dog shit stupid m

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It would explain the constant barrage of system breaking bugs and RCE vulns

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  • takeda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Turns out they have been using AI for decades.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Auto complete generated 30% of characters”

  Fixed it.

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• unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “You are right, I made a mistake. Here is a better answer.” Continues to give wrong answers.

  To be fair, the AI’s not wrong. It’s probably better, but just a teeny tiny bit so.

  Hinestly, AI is like a genie - whatever you come up with he’ll just butcher and misinterpret so you start questioning both your own sanity and the semantics of language. Good thing these genies have no wish limit, but bad thing that they murder rainforests while generating their non-sequitur replies.

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• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I do use AI for simple questions, and it works fairly well for that, but this claim by MS is just marketing bullshit.

  This is my experience. It can be useful for simple things that used to be found with a web search before AI slop broke things. For example, I was having trouble getting a simple CGO program for a POC to communicate with the main Go process. This should have been solvable easily with documentation but the CGO docs are pretty bad and sample code was near impossible to find due to AI slop in the search results. GPT was able to provide the needed sample code to unblock me.

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• drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah but it was nice for a minute imagining microsoft vibe coding windows…

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