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More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI (www.theverge.com)

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    Illustration: The Verge

Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it’s using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too. “More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers,” CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call. It’s a big milestone that marks just how important AI is to the company. AI is helping Google make money as well. Alphabet reported $88.3 billion in revenue for the quarter, with Google Services (which includes Search) revenue of $76.5 billion, up 13 percent year-over-year, and Google Cloud (which includes its AI infrastructure products for other companies) revenue of $11.4 billion, up 35 percent year-over-year. Operating incomes were also...

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Google AI is full of shit. Why give indexed results when you can just make up answers on-the-fly. (No. Phantom is not coming to Denver. The production will be in the UK at these times, btw.)

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

This surely will have no negative consequences whatsoever, despite numerous existant studies showing drastic reduction in security and code quality at other companies that have attempted this.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

Google: putting the “sanitation” in software engineering