[agentultra]

> At Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, leadership says that AI generates a growing share of the overall code

Probably because they mandate its adoption. And while there are plenty of developers who will happily comply and see it as a good thing. There are others who will do it because they have to or risk losing their jobs.

It's a bit of a silly thing to claim. "We made everyone use it, so they did, and now adoption is going up!"

[zeroonetwothree]

A lot of the code generated isn’t for the products shipped to users. At Meta someone told me that around 80% of generated code is for internal tools and dashboards (most of which have no usage).

[suttontom]

It's not even clear what this means. If an agent generates some code and I delete half and rewrite it, is the code AI-generated? If I start to write def calculate_average() and the "AI" auto complete fills it in when I hit tab, does that mean AI generated the code? What about auto complete which existed before LLMs? Did anyone ever measure how much code was "generated" using that?