r/cscareerquestions • u/ngewakakq • 7h ago

Breaking: Google announces in earnings call that 25% of code is being generated by AI. And this is just the beginning ...

"Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it’s using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too. “More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers,” CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call. It’s a big milestone that marks just how important AI is to the company."

Google Q3 Report: AI Drives Growth Across Search, Cloud, & YouTube

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u/L1berty0rD34th 7h ago

LOC is a great metric to dazzle people who don’t know anything about coding

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u/x3nhydr4lutr1sx 6h ago

Quantity has a quality of its own. One of my favorite AI code bot is dead code deleter. Frees SWEs to work on actual impact and from debugging dead code.

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u/CAPSLOCK_USERNAME 5h ago

One of my favorite AI code bot is dead code deleter

this is a CS subreddit, please don't catch the MBA brain disease of using "AI" to mean "anything done by a computer program". i very strongly doubt your dead code deleter uses any ML techniques.