I work at Google as a SWE SRE. That means a lot of the code I touch is on tangly complicated projects doing bug fixes and improving things. Not so much greenfi

I work at Google as a SWE SRE. That means a lot of the code I touch is on tangly complicated projects doing bug fixes and improving things. Not so much greenfield development unless it's a smaller tool change. AI coding is definitely speeding me up, but not quite in the magic way people at smaller companies might be used to. As a good code complete it's awesome. As a brain storm buddy, very good. AI code reviews are awesome and very low risk - if it makes a mistake it's usually just being too cautious. As an end to end agentic coder -pretty bad track record. Giving it smaller tasks? Pretty good, saving me many hours of boilerplate/cruft a week at least.