Comment by Chris_Newton 1 year ago Or the current industry favourite, “X% of our new code is now written by AI!” 4 comments Chris_Newton Reply Cthulhu_ 1 year ago Microsoft, the number being 30%; whether that's accurate is another matter. Twenty years ago people already used IDEs to generate boilerplate code (remember Java's getters/setters/hashCode/toString?) because some guy in a book said you had to. thomashop 1 year ago I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too. nyarlathotep_ 1 year ago In Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler. cb321 1 year ago LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..
Cthulhu_ 1 year ago Microsoft, the number being 30%; whether that's accurate is another matter. Twenty years ago people already used IDEs to generate boilerplate code (remember Java's getters/setters/hashCode/toString?) because some guy in a book said you had to.
thomashop 1 year ago I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.
nyarlathotep_ 1 year ago In Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler.
cb321 1 year ago LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..
Microsoft, the number being 30%; whether that's accurate is another matter. Twenty years ago people already used IDEs to generate boilerplate code (remember Java's getters/setters/hashCode/toString?) because some guy in a book said you had to.
I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.
In Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler.
LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..