The Post-Developer Era

36 points by telemachus


hwayne

AI may be generating 25% of the code that gets committed at Google, but it’s not acting independently. A skilled human developer is in the driver’s seat, using their knowledge and experience to guide the AI, editing and shaping its output, and mixing it in with the code they’ve written. As far as I know, 100% of code at Google is still being created by developers. AI is just one of many tools they use to do their job.

I vaguely recall an Googler on HN say this was mostly an exercise in creative accounting: Google was classifying any computer-generated code, including IDE autocompletes and yeoman project generators, as AI.