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When I was there, way more than 25% of the code was copying one proto into another proto, or so people complained. What sort of memes are people making now tha
by jrockway 2y ago
When I was there, way more than 25% of the code was copying one proto into another proto, or so people complained. What sort of memes are people making now that this task has been automated?
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- dietr1ch 2y agoI miss old memegen, but it got ruined by HR :/
- rcarmo 2y agoI am reliably told that it is alive and well, even if it’s changed a bit.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoI am very interested in how this 25% number is calculated, and if it's a lot of boilerplate that in the past would have been just been big copy-paste jobs like a lot of protobuffers work. Would be curious if any Googlers could comment. Not that I'm really discounting the value of AI here. For example, I've found a ton of value and saved time getting AI to write CDKTF (basically, Terraform in Typescript) config scripts for me. I don't write Terraform that often, there are a ton of options I always forget, etc. So asking ChatGPT to write a Terraform config for, say, a new scheduled task for example saves me from a lot of manual lookup. But at the same time, the AI isn't really writing the complicated logic pieces for me. I think that comes down to the fact that when I do need to write complicated logic, I'm a decent enough programmer that it's probably faster for me to write it out in a high-level programming language than write it in English first.