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> Google has internal AI dev tools now that generate more code than humans

wondering how good it is? any googler using it can compare it to copilot?

It's absolutely fantastic. I feel disabled coding without it in my spare time. Imagine a pair programming session with someone that can read your mind and knows the entire codebase. I don't know how much I'm allowed to talk about so I'll leave it at that.

I don't have access to copilot so I can't compare but I'd wager it works a lot better for Google internally because the training data is customized to Google.

Interesting, I didn't find it that impressive when I tried it a couple months ago and fairly quickly went back to regular old-fashioned autocomplete. What language(s) were you working with out of curiosity?

No idea how good other languages are but Java in cider-v is very nice.

I'm at Google and am not entirely sure what you are referring to, but I'd love to try it. Could you provide an internal codename I could search for? Or is it integrated somewhere in Cider (the name is public knowledge so I'm not leaking anything by using this) that you could guide me to (i.e. X dropdown -> 3rd option) while preserving ambiguity?

I’m fascinated that of two people working at the same company, one raves about how an internal tool is a complete game changer and indispensable while another isn’t even aware it exists.

I'm fascinated that at a 175k employee company, two employees I know nothing about, in business areas or positions I know nothing about, could possibly use different tooling for their day to day duties.

*Surely* at your place of work, the cleaning staff is familiar with the CTO's dearest tools and vice versa?

That’s an unnecessarily snarky answer given the two people above are clearly both in similar roles. The parent comment was asking where to find the option in the tooling they both shared.

Snarky replies comparing CTO to cleaning staff don’t even begin to apply.

surely at my place of work, there is no cleaning staff and no CTO.

Shoot me a mail to e-hackernews[at]wthack.de so we can connect less publicly.

Googlers.. please take it to internal comms.

I miss the days when google was super open with their new tech :/

Relax, they just bragging.

It's not trivial to find the person talking. Why does a comment or two bother you so much?

It's a conversation that isn't relevant to anyone outside the company. One commenter, who may or may not work in Google, is asking for an internal codename.

You're the downvoter here so why does my comment bother _you_ so much?

On any other "social media" they would be great comments, but they're not really in the spirit of Hacker News.

Close friend worked at Google Brain, now Deepmind. Said he presses tab 70% of the time and it just works. When shown my paid version of Copilot said it felt his auto completes had higher accuracy.

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