Sundar Pichai, Google earnings call
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Sundar Pichai, Google earnings call
https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earnings-q3-2024/
> We're also using AI internally to improve our coding processes, which is boosting productivity and efficiency. 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.
Firstly, if this is literally true they’re completely fucking cooked.
Secondly, if it isn’t true, what version of it is? What behaviours are reaching Pichai as over a quarter of new code coming from code tools?
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@davidgerard oh hooray they’ve replaced programming with code review, a task that is famously well taught in CS programs, very easy to do well, and which every engineer loves.
… I mean I enjoy it but I’m a weirdo; getting anyone else on my team to do it is an uphill slog.
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@davidgerard A great deal of google3 code is repetitive boilerplate; service configs, stubby/proto lookups, etc. I suspect a Cider-integrated model with training on the history of the repo will do a good job with those aspects. It's hard to overstate just how uniform Google's code is in style and documentation discipline.
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@davidgerard How AI can improve your productivity(*) as a programmer!
Step 1. Call AI and get it to generate code for you.
Step 2. Manually add if(0){} around everything it created.
Step 3. Check it in.
Step 4. Profit.(*) As measured in KLOC
