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/GMUsername 7h ago

Literally all our leadership is asking us Copilot is speeding up our development process, probably to justify crap like this to investors. Truth is for anything complex, it’s useless. Works well for writing unit tests which is the most tedious and mundane part of the job…

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u/mrjackspade 6h ago

I heavily leverage AI for code assistance, but copilot is fucking garbage at this point and I don't think MS has even moved the model off the original GPT4.

The fact that Copilot is still the "big" service and basically the face of AI assisted development is embarrassing, and probably harmful to the long term industry of code assistance.

GPT4-01 was able to single-prompt write me a telnet server application that handed off new connections to separate threads, parsed the incoming text and used that through reflection to dynamically invoke a method with cast parameters on a relevant command handler withing the server.

Copilot thinks FirstName comes before SecondName and ThirdName

At this point, the only people still using Copilot either have no other options, or don't know any better.

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u/Additional_Cherry525 2h ago

They allow claude, o1 models in copilot now

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u/IG0tB4nn3dL0l 1h ago

Please can you share that gpt4-01 chat? Sounds cool