Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated
Submitted 3 weeks ago by remington@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generated-code-75-gemini-agents-software-2026-4
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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
And that’s only 30% lol
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 3 weeks ago
“Yes, but have you shipped anything positive?”
dom@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Man Gemini sucks. They force replaced assistant with Gemini for me.
“Hey google, play my rock playlist”
“You dont have a rock Playlist on youtube music”
“Hey google play rock Playlist on spotify”
“You dont have rock Playlist on Spotify on youtube music”
We call this fucking progress?
Dippy@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
We can tell
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I have a friend at Google who been saying “sorry p0 bug” so much in the last month…
spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I still remember the good old days where everyone says google have the best code quality among big techs. That being said, seeing how shitty everyone’s code has become, google might still be the best :)
Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Are they using ai to fix them?
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Yeah, we can tell...
Darthcapi@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Why would you tell people?
scytale@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Gotta justify all the money being poured into it.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Is this why everything feels EVEN SHITTIER than it did a year ago?
megopie@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
*75% of code was written by people who were required to have an AI plug in installed.
Probably also having their usage ranked.
Also have had their work loads increased and their deadlines shortened.
And if they don’t hit the metrics and meet the shorter deadlines… they get fired.
I’m sure that’s a recipe for functional, well tested, efficient, and secure software. Definitely not creating a shit ton of technical debt.
Hirom@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
And I guess engineers would be held responsible for the code produced by the AI agent’s they’re pressured to use.
So they can blame and fire more engineers when things go wrong.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I’d say something, but it’s pretty much all been covered. They’re now too big to fail, so we just have to put up with whatever they serve up next.
I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over the hardware I fucking purchased. Search is fucking worthless; I’ve not used that in ages. DDG gets the job done without a screen and a half of ads and sponsored content.
Who the fuck puts up with this shit?
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Also, as I have nearly run out of fucks to give: Fuck. And now I’m out of them again.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over* the hardware I fucking purchased*.
Open source android forks exist. Open source operating systems exist. Phones that natively run both exist. Do you mean that you specifically enjoy having maginal control, no more, no less?
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I’m convinced that is a generated metric that is far away from reality. the objective is too make their product seem better than it is
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Is that a good metric??
Isn't this just stating that you're letting something with the coding ability of a toddler run amok through your product, having to constantly be bug-fixed by your remaining engineers?
This is exactly what Microsoft started doing, and its so far worked out terribly for them. Loads of their new software updates have had unacceptablely large bugs for even simple like task manager!
bluGill@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Most of my code is ai generated - but I have to carefully review everything because it ofte makes poor decisions.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Anthropic is probably on the leading edge of vibe coding, and in the past month, they’ve had major server uptime issues, they accidentally released the source code for their biggest product, and as of this week, their latest model was accidentally posted on an open URL for anyone to download. In the last 6 months, people have actually switched from vibe coding small apps to vibe coding major sections of their core infrastructure, and all evidence so far suggests that the consequences will come.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m vibe coding a fairly complicated bash script to fully automate upgrading a web server at work. For context, I have over 2 decades experience in programming/data analytics/tech, but I’m a Linux and server admin newbie.
It’s comically bad at it. Like, I had to tell it not to post passwords to the production database to console and plaintext log files. Then, about a dozen prompts later, it does it again. The restore script rm-ed things (as sudo) before checking that it had a valid backup file to replace it with. It keeps deleting the comments in the code snippets I send it to update/fix, even when explicitly told to keep the comments. I asked it to prepend time to live commands (i.e. not “dry run” echos), and then it deleted them all again when I asked it to refactor something unrelated.
It’s been great learning for me, and I’m definitely getting this job done faster and to a higher quality than I could on my own, but holy hell these scripts would have been a disaster if someone just ran them “as is”. I’ve needed to fix dozens of errors that could have really screwed things up.
I wonder how often people go through their vibe coded outputs with the careful attention and care it needs. I’m guessing infrequently. LLMs are just word prediction machines; they don’t understand anything.
EntityDeletr@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I saw this one person who, despite getting 3 warnings (one in the chat, 2 in the file itself) about not placing a plaintext API key into a version-controlled env file from a chatbot, did so anyway. Its not just about the AI, but also about the people using them. Someone with experience will be able to utilize the speed of an AI, while finding its mistakes as well. A “vibe coder” won’t know the difference.
843563115848@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This will not end well.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
internet is going to collapse under rampant cybercrime at some point, all the slopcode will have everything so broken and vulnerable hackers will have choiceparalyze.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Do they mean Google or Alphabet?
three@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Crazy how they wrote google over and over again, and you still ask this.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I asked what they meant not what they said, they share a CEO
trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Can’t wait for Google to lose billions to understand that we don’t want slop. DeGoogle everyone.
fodor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Of course! Google would say that. Doesn’t mean it’s true. They aren’t under oath and they have every reason to lie.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Onky 75%? I thought they were “all in” on the AI future.
Fucking amatures.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Oh I’m sure this will end well. /s
Greg@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is such a stupid metric and any investors excited by it should feel bad.