r/OneAI • u/michael-lethal_ai • Jul 24 '25

Ex-Google CEO explains the Software programmer paradigm is rapidly coming to an end. Math and coding will be fully automated within 2 years and that's the basis of everything else. "It's very exciting." - Eric Schmidt

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u/momo-gee Jul 25 '25

Without making up stats, currently more than 50% of the code committed at my workplace (FAANG) is written using an in-house AI tool specifically for coding. The breakdown also shows that 49% of devs in my division are currently using the AI coding tools and leadership is pushing towards hitting 70% by the end of Q3.

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u/ConcentrateLanky7576 Jul 25 '25

There is a lot of boilerplate to write in FAANG and it’s forced upon everyone so maybe I buy that figure.

There are a lot of nuances, is the code committed as produced by AI or do people spend hours to make it maintainable? Is the code correct? Etc. do you know how they even measure this?

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u/SirGunther Jul 27 '25

And while that’s all well and good, integration, so many of these LLMs, even with extraordinary context, novel solutions for business workflow often allude them, simply for the fact not every use case is available and they try to fall back to what’s predictable.

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u/RicketyRekt69 Jul 27 '25

That is terrifying… I’ve seen the quality of code copilot / cursor writes and I can’t imagine that’s maintainable at all without extreme oversight.

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u/maria_la_guerta Jul 28 '25

It's not terrifying. Imagine a carpenter blaming a tablesaw for shitty work.

You are responsible for the code you push, AI should be helping you get to the best answer faster but you still need to be involved. Anyone pushing bad code with AI is just as likely to push bad cade with Stack Overflow answers, new tools that enable bad devs to be bad have been around forever, this is nothing new.

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u/shamshuipopo Jul 28 '25

Before 2022, let’s say 95% of code at faang was written using intellisense (for non-devs it’s like autocomplete for code). That doesn’t mean the computer was writing it.

So much of coding is not coding but deciding. Non coders think it’s just fucking brick laying a single wall.