yep
ESR went like this after 9/11
they actually came up with something more fucked up than stack ranking
appparently this is use of code-complete as well
"brutal mog, sir"
WritePhilthily
i think she was clearly the winner there too
from someone on Mastodon:
Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.
If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.
I left in ‘22 but feel fairly confident that “25% of code generated by AI” is going to be more of the same.
Sundar Pichal, Google Q3 2024 earnings call:
We're also using AI internally to improve our coding processes, which is boosting productivity and efficiency. Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster.
Firstly, if this is literally true they're completely fucking cooked.
Secondly, if it isn't, what version of it is?
the user has been guided to the egress via the waste disposal
so that's picking out words from July, which Trump may or may not remember to follow depending what the last guy who spoke to him said
but broadly, if it's business fucking over ordinary users, he's for it
CHIPS act stuff doesn't really affect anything here - Nvidia is not gonna have supply difficulties that affect the bubble