Neat -- I haven't worked at Google but wondered what they might be doing on this score. There's probably lots of potential for modern AI to hack at programmer

Neat -- I haven't worked at Google but wondered what they might be doing on this score. There's probably lots of potential for modern AI to hack at programmer productivity more directly. Machine learning so far has been more of a complement than a substitute, but I'm imagining a workflow where a lot of the time you're writing tests/types/contracts/laws and letting your assistant draft the code to satisfy them. You write a test, when you're done you see there's a new function ready for you coded to satisfy a previous test, you take a look and maybe go "Oh, this is missing a case" and mark it incomplete and add another test to fill it out. Maybe in the sci-fi future programming looks more like strategic guidance; nearer term perhaps we might see 500 cores going full blast to speed up your coding work by 20% on average. Or maybe not! But it's one idea.