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Everyone here is arguing about the average AI code quality and I'm here just not believing the claim.

Is Google out there monitoring the IDE activity of every engineer, logging the amount of code created, by what, lines, characters, and how it was generated? Dubious.

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> Is Google out there monitoring the IDE activity of every engineer, logging the amount of code created, by what, lines, characters, and how it was generated

A good chunk () of their code goes in a centralized repo, and is written via a centralized web IDE. So measuring everything you mentioned is not hard.

() Android, Chrome, and other similar projects are exceptions.

How does this allow them to measure the % generated by AI tooling?

The IDE integrates the AI generator, like copilot.

Yes, they'll miss AI-generated code that is copy pasted, so they only have a lower bound of AI-generated code.

Very good point. How was the 25% measured?

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