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Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • David GerardMA
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    Sundar Pichal, Google Q3 2024 earnings call:

    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, what version of it is?

    • @swlabr
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      Best case scenario they are using a loose definition of AI to mean any code generated by other code in order to signal to investors that google isn’t the hulking, sluggish monolith that it is and is agile enough to use AI.

      Worst case scenario: “hey chatgpt pls write me new search algorithm to print money, thanks, sundar”

    • David GerardMA
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      83 hours ago

      from someone on Mastodon:

      Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.

      If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.

      I left in ‘22 but feel fairly confident that “25% of code generated by AI” is going to be more of the same.

      • @froztbyte
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        41 hour ago

        I half want to jest “PDD strikes again” but honestly it feels like only half the explanation

        (promotion driven dev)

    • @khalid_salad
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      53 hours ago

      Firstly, if this is literally true they’re completely fucking cooked.

      I totally believe it. Y’all remember Stadia? That was a cosmic freebie and Google absolutely dropped the ball on it so laughably hard.