[lemming]

The company that is best placed to collect tons of high quality data of this type is undoubtedly Google. They’ve had publications talking about how they capture data from their in house SWE tools and use it to improve their tooling.

[blixt]

They certainly can automate their own SWE but I wonder if that’s as good as getting full computer use logs (terminal, web browsing, code acceptance/rejection, etc etc — as claimed in the linked article) from millions of individuals and thousands of companies all with their quirky technology setups.

[throwaway314155]

This summarizes Google's approach to software engineering well; just pretend the outside world doesn't exist and the "Google way" is the only way.