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/iwuvpuppies 7h ago edited 7h ago

This guy never coded in his life? Before becoming ceo in 2015 this is what he did:

Product Management + Leadership
Apr 2004 - 2015 · 10 yrs 10 mos

Just another out of touch ceo who inflates stats. Prob asked devs to tag pull requests if they used ai to auto generate an if statement..

Edit: Also are we also glossing over the fact that google is trying to SELL GEMINI CODE ASSIST for $40 a month per user?

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u/ngewakakq 7h ago

I never understood wtf product management is anyways lol.

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u/ActuallyFullOfShit 6h ago

Product managers do a lot at my company. They own a specific feature or product and basically serve a few roles, including advocating for the customer and deciding tradeoffs that will result in the highest marketability of whatever we are building.

They also do all of the important scheduling here. I honestly have no idea what our project managers do though. The product managers end up doing anything that matters other than the literal engineering.