Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI
Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI
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we can tell
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That exains a lot...
I do use AI to assist my programming, but I always take what it suggests as likely highly flawed. It frequently sends me in the right direction but almost never is fully correct. I read the answers carefully, throw away answers frequently, and never use a solution without modifying it in some way.
Also, it is terrible at handling more complex tasks. I just use it to help me construct small building blocks while I design and build the larger code.
If 30% of my code was written by AI it would be utter trash.
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AI is like a utils library: it can do well known boilerplate like sorting very well, but it’s not likely to actually write your code for you
AI is like fill down in spreadsheets: it can repeat a sequence with slight, obvious modifications but it’s not going to invent the data for you
AI is like static analysis for tests: it can roughly write test outlines, but they might not actually tell you anything about the state of the code under test
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Well said. Fully agreed.
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And presumably must developers at Microsoft take a similar approach (all the 'this explains everything' comments notwithstanding, so it's ridiculous that they're even tracking this as a metric. If 30% is AI generated, but the devs had to throw away 90% of it, that doesn't mean you could get rid of the developer, as they did a huge amount of work just checking the AI and potentially fixing stuff after it.
This is a metric that is misleading and will cause management to make the wrong decisions.
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That’s like, not a good thing dude
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@casmael @Ninjazzon @technology It would be an amazing thing but there is so little support for workers in America that we all fear the destitution that will result.
Imagine if a worker replaced by ai could still maintain their life through UI, it would actually be awesome to be replaced by machines.
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I wonder how they measure that. Writing 30% of loc with AI seems like it will be terrible. Writing 30% of each loc with AI (i.e. autocomplete) seems feasible
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Yeah, what percentage of their code was previously written by Intellisense, because I suspect this is just copilot replacing intellisense/resharper plus a little more.
Copilot is great for:
a) replacing intellisense
b) minor refractors / and very short method writing
c) writing out boiler plate / test code
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I mean, autocorrect has written about 50 percent of this comment, but that doesn't mean my phone is writing it for me as much as it accelerates what I wanted to type in the first place.
Maybe that's how they got to a 30% estimate, cause ain't no other way that would have worked
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Given they made a big hoohah a few years ago of getting rid of most of their QA—this in combination is a particularly bad look
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I could believe this.
But how is their OS or any other product even close to functional at that point?
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Is it tho?
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I'm using Windows daily.
I never said it was good, but it is functional.
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I wonder if Microsoft has a model that learns from their own source code. I have tried having copilot write sql queries and they work (without modification) about 10% of the time
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Pathetic
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