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This is too real.
Now I get PRs entirely written by Claude from my VP that include things like full plaintext secret keys, or reimplement an API that exists, just shittier.
“Claude wrote this in an hour, why is review taking so long”
Uhh because I can’t figure out the diplomatic way to say this is shit and you need to stop without creating an incident, and I don’t want to spend half my day reviewing crap.
Yeah also noticing similar bullshit. People send me exact steps on what to do written by ChatGPT that understands exactly nothing about the context and is therefore often wrong or a half truth at best.
Another client has pushed a single commit to a messy project that added 70k lines and a load of new features. The project is now unmaintainable.
Are you guys hiring freshers by any chance ?
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated.
Everyone should take this with a huge grain of salt. Like all other internal company stat reports, it's bullshit and manufactured.
Example: my company has recently introduced a gate on CI. All commits must have "Co-Authored-By: X". Technically, you can set X=None, but most people aren't doing that because we're not stupid and we know the commit history can easily be data mined and used to generate stats on who is or isn't using AI. And we don't want to get fired.
Result: 99% of all new commits use "Co-Authored-By: Claude". Every commit I make now has "Co-Authored-By: Claude". Am I using AI? FUCK NO. But, now I have to add that stupid line to any work I turn in.
Remember that part in The Big Short where the stripper is talking about all the houses she owns? Similar vibes.
Stark reality. Thank you.
Can't you script it with a git hook?
Best part of the article, hat tip to author Emanuel for how he included the correction request:
After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."
Google: 🙋 "Erm, sorry, your portrayal of our complete lack of ethics is incomplete. Thank you."
Its a very damning line to retract, but I don't think anybody is surprised at this point
"We encourage our engineers to vigorously test and critique our internal tools; that candid feedback loop, even via our internal meme generator, is vital to how we build technology"
Google listening to employee feedback:
Their meme game is weak
Maybe they should try having AI generate some memes for them.
