October 31, 2024 at 11:56 AM
If you’re into #genai, you might have heard the last amazing story of the week: “Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company’s new code is created by AI”. (article below)
And you might feel left behind: 25% productivity increase* across all your software developers, analysts, etc. WOW!
Where’s the catch?
Well, in the famous internet forum Hacker News, a Google employee gives us a bit more details (link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42002212). The money quote:
“I work for Google, and I just got done with my work day. I was just writing I guess what you’d call ‘AI generated code.’ But the code completion engine is basically just good at finishing the lines I’m writing. […] So basically, it’s a helpful productivity tool but it’s not doing any engineering at all.”
*Not really 25%, but you get what I mean.
