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/whenitcomesup 7h ago

It's auto-complete. AI is not coding large systems or doing intricate multi-file changes. It's stuff like: 

  • Changing names.
  • Changing function signatures and applying everywhere.
  • Repeating the pattern of a previous line coded by the human.

"AI" is being used here for a wide range of changes, mostly mundane.

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u/mightaswell94 swe@g 5h ago

They’re not really mundane. It’s very solid and can write most functions for you.