Speculating About Google CEOs, “AI Writes 25% of Code” Statement

Shareholders are the easiest class of people to take advantage.

Whoever wrote “numbers never lie” must’ve been the most manipulative mother fucker ever to exist. Sure, a number can’t lie if you just omit the truth about it.

Which, in itself, is a lie.

In the spirit of Halloween, let me scare you with how much AI is taking over your lazy, entitled ass.

What is that again? Tab completes aren’t an accurate metric?

And that is the point of this article. We don’t know where this number originated, but it sounds good.

It reminds me of companies stating they have a 98% satisfaction rate when 99% of customers don’t fill out the survey about service. I’ve accepted Comcast (Xfinity for the Zoomers) sucks ass, and I don’t think an online survey will help that. Or when a company does an internal survey that’s supposedly anonymous.

I believe we have a similar situation.

Having 25% of code generated by AI isn’t unreal. Many developers benefit from code generation via pattern recognition, such as writing unit tests, simple CRUD code, daily repeated operations (read/write a file), etc. I’d say it’s a lot of fluff code.