Does this mean “AI was used as a fancy autocomplete”? Because that’s my number 1 use case for AI like copilot, and if that’s the case, over 25% of my code is written by AI. But let me tell you, it still gets it wrong, repeatedly making the same syntax errors no matter how many times I correct it. It starts to get it right, then later reverts to making the same syntax errors, even making up variable names that violate widely known public APIs.
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI.
Submitted 7 months ago by Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024
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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Auto complete is about… 60% helpful and increases my productivity with about 5-10% as I need to double check everything it does and half the time it’s something ridiculously stoopid
prof@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Agreed. It’s really shit for new code, but if I’m writing glue code stuff or repetitive code it saves a lot of time spent on typing.
realharo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If they’re counting all the auto-completed code that’s inserted after pressing Tab, then I easily believe it.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I wonder if they do the monkey writing shakespeare experiment but with code. If you keep letting it write code, something has to come out of it.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You still need to check the hell out of it because AI is wildly unreliable.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
That would explain the decline in quality of everything from Google. Even Gmail is becoming buggy as hell, even though I haven’t seen any new features added. I have used Gmail since it’s founding and only in the last year or so did it become extremely buggy.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Awesome. How much more time off to google software engineers get? I guess it’s none.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now they can fill new holes at the google graveyard at twice the speed!
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 7 months ago
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
btaf45@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This company wasn’t trying to bullshit financial analysts which was the reason for the google CEO comment.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Ah Elon most love all this extra code being written. If course it’s super inefficient but look at all those lines sooo much code.
kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Are the lines salient though?
btaf45@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How is Elon going to tell the AI to print its code on hardcopy and then fly to Elon’s city to show him your hardcopy code like he told actual Twitter developers to do?
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Not disappointed by The Verge, first paragraph paraphrases the title with no source and the following is just off topic.
Dot@feddit.org 7 months ago
The source for first paragraph: blog.google/…/alphabet-earnings-q3-2024/
baru@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Thanks ! ❤️
just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Makes sense considering how shitty Google products have become.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
NICE TRY, AI !
dan@upvote.au 7 months 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” 🤔
0x0@programming.dev 7 months ago
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.
aidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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?
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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?
dan@upvote.au 7 months ago
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 7 months 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 7 months ago
Given the size of lockfiles this would not surprise me but who the hell counts lock files code. Their barely configs :/.