Yep, a lot of headline readers here.
It's just a very advanced autocomplete, completely integrated into the internal codebase and IDE. You can read this on the research blog (maybe if everyone just read the blog).
e.g.
I start typing `var notificationManager`
It would suggest `= (Notification Manager) context.getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_MANAGER);`
If you've done Android then you know how much boilerplate there is to suggest.
I press Ctrl+Enter or something to accept the suggestion.
Voila, more than 50% of that code was written by AI.
> blindly committing AI code
Even before AI, no one blindly accepts autocomplete.
A lot of headline-readers seem to imagine some sort of semi-autonomous or prompt based code generation that writes whole blocks of code to then be blindly accepted by engineers.
It's just a very advanced autocomplete, completely integrated into the internal codebase and IDE. You can read this on the research blog (maybe if everyone just read the blog).
e.g.
I start typing `var notificationManager`
It would suggest `= (Notification Manager) context.getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_MANAGER);`
If you've done Android then you know how much boilerplate there is to suggest.
I press Ctrl+Enter or something to accept the suggestion.
Voila, more than 50% of that code was written by AI.
> blindly committing AI code
Even before AI, no one blindly accepts autocomplete.
A lot of headline-readers seem to imagine some sort of semi-autonomous or prompt based code generation that writes whole blocks of code to then be blindly accepted by engineers.