25% of code written at Google is produced by AI. The question, well, 2 questions: 1) is this code as good as before, when code was all human-written? And 2) is Google actually making any good products? If not, they're just making products that aren't any good 25% faster. But Google kills lots of products so maybe they can kill products 25% faster, too?
I guess Gemini is pretty good -- what's not so good is trying to ram it into everything. I don't know about you but I skip those "AI summaries" in search results -- I go directly to Gemini when I want an "AI summary". Google Search itself doesn't seem to be getting any better, although, I know people say it's getting worse, but to me it seems like it's usually good enough -- I still use it. I'm getting text messages from Gemini on my phone -- it wants to help me write messages. I don't want someone else, AI or no, telling me what to say, tho. Who wants this? If you like and use this stuff, comment below.
There's also the issue of the 25% itself. At my work there is tremendous pressure for programmers to vastly increase productivity by using AI tools. Subjectively it seems like the expectation industrywide is about 5x, although at my work nobody has said 5x specifically. 25% is 1.25x, nowhere near 5x.
