Will bad AI code kill Google?

Google's embraced AI code. Perhaps a bit too hard. A QUARTER of their code is AI generated??? Oh boy...

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[peterromfeld]

it would explain why google products and services just seem to regress

[karenwest]

What I'm hearing is, now is a fantastic time to start getting into bug hunting on google dogfooded products because they are probably 25% worse by volume.

[hhcofcmds]

The elephant in the room is that Google is kind of motivated to "exaggerate" about usefulness of AI.

[duytdl]

Google with their famous hard-to-get-in interviewing process has essentially created an in-bred fleet of developers who all clones of each other and that's why it's failing.

[MrXperx]

Gemini is really crap at code. Probably an order of magnitude worse than claude and chatgpt.

[kitsune]

The AI overview is super helpful it helped me find a safe detergent to use when I put my kitten in the washer.

[peterromfeld]

I tried to use gemini to help write some terraform code for GCP stuff, it was a total disaster and was suggesting imaginary functions/api's... another time i tried to use it for writing technical documentation and it could not even get a private subnet notation correct... AI is absolute useless for anything that is not surface level or just BS anyways (AI is really good at making BS sound like its the truth though)

[TimothyWhiteheadzm]

The most dangerous part about the statement 'x percentage of lines of code are written by AI' is the fundamentally wrong assumption that you can measure programmer productivity in lines of code. Such a statement (true or not) will lead management to think they got 25% of the work done for free and that the programmers are now 25% more productive. This could not be farther from the truth. As a full time programmer I spend less than 1% of my time actually typing code. On some days AI does write a large proportion of my code because I use AI for line completion. But I decide which line and how the line starts etc. Saying that a spell/grammar checker writes 10% of management emails would be equivalent.

[NahomieNaderi]

enterprise-ai AI fixes this. Google betting heavily on AI.

[beloved_child]

Great, as if Google services weren't getting worse by the day... This is gonna just accelerate the mediocitization.

[thejeanlouw]

"People find Google products unreliable so we at Google are writing code with AI to double down on that unreliability"

[MarcelSamyn]

Isn't it great? We can have 100x the amount of bugs written with 70% less humans involved!

[kuakilyissombroguwi]

I guarantee you that 25% of AI generated code is boilerplate and wrapper functionality for the myriad of crazy abstractions they have internally. I'd be shocked if actual production functionalities are being automated end-to-end with Gemini.

[bricecarpentier]

So, a company that has placed an existential bet on AI says AI is amazing and writing a fourth of their code now. Interesting, I wonder if maybe they have an interest in saying that even if it isn’t true.

[CodyAtBow]

IMHO companies should be more careful than just giving everything to AI.

[Trahloc]

Google, the people who laid the foundation for LLMs, have the worst AI of anyone. Asking Gemini anything is like ramming your forehead against a steel bulkhead. Claude or bust.

[arthur...barros]

Well I do use Google AI actively on a daily basis and some automated tasks runs on top of Gemini 1.5 flash. Pretty good. Also there are some stuff buried inside vertex stuff. One other thing if you are doing diarization and transcript you can upload stuff from the api directly to Gemini up do 4gb files withou parsing anything. I don't know man, Gemini is pretty good. But you should know when to use it

[kocokan]

Goodluck to google's long tern stability

[rymcymcym]

If AI will be able to guide me step by step on how to make a money printer, then I won't even care whether it takes my job or not.

[connorskudlarek]

When the google AI search summary works, it's awesome.

When it doesn't, it's actively detrimental to what I was looking to know.

I'd say the latter happens about as often as the former.