Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
  • ddplf@szmer.infoEnglish
    48 minutes

    Also a big, chunky and oily FUCK YOU to all of you who work for or aspire to work for FAANG, MAAMA or whatever fucking letters you call it these days

  • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1 hour

    paid tons of money to fool around while some who would be willing to work dont get hired no matter what

  • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
    5 hours

    This is too real.

    Now I get PRs entirely written by Claude from my VP that include things like full plaintext secret keys, or reimplement an API that exists, just shittier.

    “Claude wrote this in an hour, why is review taking so long”

    Uhh because I can’t figure out the diplomatic way to say this is shit and you need to stop without creating an incident, and I don’t want to spend half my day reviewing crap.

    • Pechente@feddit.orgEnglish
      3 hours

      Yeah also noticing similar bullshit. People send me exact steps on what to do written by ChatGPT that understands exactly nothing about the context and is therefore often wrong or a half truth at best.

      Another client has pushed a single commit to a messy project that added 70k lines and a load of new features. The project is now unmaintainable.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        49 minutes

        freshers

        Is that the new name for “engineers ready to un-slop the code”?

  • uuj8za@piefed.socialEnglish
    4 hours

    Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated.

    Everyone should take this with a huge grain of salt. Like all other internal company stat reports, it’s bullshit and manufactured.

    Example: my company has recently introduced a gate on CI. All commits must have “Co-Authored-By: X”. Technically, you can set X=None, but most people aren’t doing that because we’re not stupid and we know the commit history can easily be data mined and used to generate stats on who is or isn’t using AI. And we don’t want to get fired.

    Result: 99% of all new commits use “Co-Authored-By: Claude”. Every commit I make now has “Co-Authored-By: Claude”. Am I using AI? FUCK NO. But, now I have to add that stupid line to any work I turn in.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      We have a commit skill we’re supposed to use. So for non-trivial work that I don’t want the AI to screw up i do it by hand then use the skill so it can vomit put a commit message and PR.

      I get the shiny “Co-Authored-By: Claude” and burn a ton of tokens to make myself look “AI Fluent”

    • Steve@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2 hours

      Remember that part in The Big Short where the stripper is talking about all the houses she owns? Similar vibes.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    5 hours

    Best part of the article, hat tip to author Emanuel for how he included the correction request:

    After this story was published Google’s spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that “it’s critical that we maintain humans in the loop.”

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
      2 hours

      Google: 🙋 “Erm, sorry, your portrayal of our complete lack of ethics is incomplete. Thank you.”

    • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
      5 hours

      Its a very damning line to retract, but I don’t think anybody is surprised at this point

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    5 hours

    “We encourage our engineers to vigorously test and critique our internal tools; that candid feedback loop, even via our internal meme generator, is vital to how we build technology”

    Google listening to employee feedback:

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