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Chris_Newton
354 days ago
Or the current industry favourite, “
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% of our new code is now written by AI!”
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Cthulhu_
353 days 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.
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thomashop
353 days ago
I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.
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nyarlathotep_
352 days ago
In Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler.
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cb321
353 days ago
LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..
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