This is such a stupid metric and any investors excited by it should feel bad.
Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated
Submitted 21 hours 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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Greg@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
And that’s only 30% lol
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 7 hours 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 7 hours ago
Most of my code is ai generated - but I have to carefully review everything because it ofte makes poor decisions.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 13 hours ago
Yeah, we can tell...
dom@lemmy.ca 13 hours 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?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Is this why everything feels EVEN SHITTIER than it did a year ago?
Dippy@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
We can tell
megopie@beehaw.org 12 hours 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 8 hours 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.
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 21 hours ago
“Yes, but have you shipped anything positive?”
sanzky@beehaw.org 11 hours 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
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
I have a friend at Google who been saying “sorry p0 bug” so much in the last month…
spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 18 hours 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 :)
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 17 hours 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 2 hours 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?
Darthcapi@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Why would you tell people?
scytale@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
Gotta justify all the money being poured into it.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 7 hours 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.
843563115848@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
This will not end well.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Onky 75%? I thought they were “all in” on the AI future.
Fucking amatures.
trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Can’t wait for Google to lose billions to understand that we don’t want slop. DeGoogle everyone.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Do they mean Google or Alphabet?
three@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Crazy how they wrote google over and over again, and you still ask this.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
I asked what they meant not what they said, they share a CEO
Etterra@discuss.online 7 hours ago
Oh I’m sure this will end well. /s
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 hours 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.