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> Jeff Dean just said 25% of the code being checked into Google's internal codebase is now AI generated. This assertion feels misleading. When I worked at a FA
by archagon 2y ago
> Jeff Dean just said 25% of the code being checked into Google's internal codebase is now AI generated.
This assertion feels misleading. When I worked at a FAANG, 10% of our codebase was generated Protobuf. Obviously, this was highly repetitive boilerplate that was equivalent to maybe a few thousand actual lines of code. What does the 25% of LLM-generated code actually look like? I'm guessing it's doing nothing particularly novel or interesting. (Also, I have to wonder if a large chunk of that 25% could be encapsulated as a more reliable and deterministic abstraction.)