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My friends at Google hate AI coding with passion. I have some theories as to why. But anyone here venture a guess?
by nextworddev 1y ago
My friends at Google hate AI coding with passion. I have some theories as to why. But anyone here venture a guess?
- ares623 1y agoTraining their replacements?
- speedgoose 1y agoConservatisme, resistance to change, fear of losing the skills and becoming irrelevant.
- fauigerzigerk 1y agoPossibly, but I think something else could be happening at large companies that are fearful of missing a sea change. Managers will be wary of exactly the sort of motivations for resistance that you mentioned. So they will try to counteract that by putting in place quantitative metrics to incentivise or even force AI use where it doesn't necessarily make sense. This could cause resentment and fear irrespective of the real benefits that AI undboutedly brings. This is complete speculation on my part where Google specifically is concerned. It's just something I think will inevitably happen at some companies.
- botanical76 1y agoAI coding is in many ways antithetical to great software engineering. It is the current spear-edge of the investor pressure to ship products faster, and monetize users more aggressively, all at the cost of quality, reliability, ethics, security. If you, as a software engineer, once held an ideal about programming as an art or craft, AI coding flies in the face of all that. It turns out that maximising for short-term profit leaves many other objectives behind in its wake.