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The new CTO at my workplace just the other day announced they’d partnered with Google to get Gemini Code Complete and they’d be piloting its use on a particular project. They had someone from Google present all the “benefits” of using AI for writing code and everything.
Most of my team is facepalming so hard. Except the one guy who’s an AI enthusiast. (That guy is also a massive conspiracy theorist.) I’m not sure about everyone’s sentiment, though. I’m kindof sortof “in charge” on my team, and apparently the company’s stance is now that AI use is acceptable. If I told folks not to use AI, I don’t think the business would back me, so I’m having to be “diplomatic” about it.
So, I’ve told the team “just… don’t push any code to the central repo without understanding it at least as well as if you’d written it yourself.”
But yeah. I’m pretty pissed. Hopefully the CTO isn’t high enough on the smell of his own farts to decide that “pilot” project is an unmitigated success despite all evidence to the contrary.
Yeah, it’s pretty weird. My employer is a traditionally brick-and-mortor sort of business that’s only recently starting to learn that the internet isn’t a “fad”. My employer’s policy has always been that we don’t use “the cloud” specifically so we can keep our trade secrets secret. They’re only now starting to approach the idea of running our code on off-premisis hardware our company doesn’t own. They’re using Google Cloud rather than AWS, though, because “Amazon is a competitor” and they’re paranoid that Amazon is going to steal our trade secrets. Which… doesn’t make sense because so is Google. (Of course, that doesn’t really give away what industry my employer is in because both Google and Amazon do basically everything.) Google pinky swears they’ll never steal/use/share our data. And of course that might be true right up until the moment they decide to change that and meanwhile we’re screwed because we’re all vendor-lockin’d with them.
They’ll just send the code to an AI text gen to “summarize” what it does and put that in the PR body.
You have to understand most of these devs don’t give a shit (in a based kind of way. fuck work) At the same time it comes to a detriment because they will use code gens so they don’t have to do any work. and then it bites you in the ass because you’re the one reviewing.
The new CTO at my workplace just the other day announced they’d partnered with Google to get Gemini Code Complete and they’d be piloting its use on a particular project. They had someone from Google present all the “benefits” of using AI for writing code and everything.
Most of my team is facepalming so hard. Except the one guy who’s an AI enthusiast. (That guy is also a massive conspiracy theorist.) I’m not sure about everyone’s sentiment, though. I’m kindof sortof “in charge” on my team, and apparently the company’s stance is now that AI use is acceptable. If I told folks not to use AI, I don’t think the business would back me, so I’m having to be “diplomatic” about it.
So, I’ve told the team “just… don’t push any code to the central repo without understanding it at least as well as if you’d written it yourself.”
But yeah. I’m pretty pissed. Hopefully the CTO isn’t high enough on the smell of his own farts to decide that “pilot” project is an unmitigated success despite all evidence to the contrary.
So, they’re ok with sending all your (customers’) code to Google. I’m mildly positively surprised my company isn’t.
Yeah, it’s pretty weird. My employer is a traditionally brick-and-mortor sort of business that’s only recently starting to learn that the internet isn’t a “fad”. My employer’s policy has always been that we don’t use “the cloud” specifically so we can keep our trade secrets secret. They’re only now starting to approach the idea of running our code on off-premisis hardware our company doesn’t own. They’re using Google Cloud rather than AWS, though, because “Amazon is a competitor” and they’re paranoid that Amazon is going to steal our trade secrets. Which… doesn’t make sense because so is Google. (Of course, that doesn’t really give away what industry my employer is in because both Google and Amazon do basically everything.) Google pinky swears they’ll never steal/use/share our data. And of course that might be true right up until the moment they decide to change that and meanwhile we’re screwed because we’re all vendor-lockin’d with them.
Anyway, yeah. My employer is nincompoops. Lol.
They’ll just send the code to an AI text gen to “summarize” what it does and put that in the PR body.
You have to understand most of these devs don’t give a shit (in a based kind of way. fuck work) At the same time it comes to a detriment because they will use code gens so they don’t have to do any work. and then it bites you in the ass because you’re the one reviewing.