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   chrisg (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 19:32:44 JST chrisg

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   • tante

   @tante

   In some ways, all code is "boilerplate" code.

   The actual work of a programmer is to choose a certain data structure, or the appropriate algorithm.

   So you are right, when they say "25%", they want it to be interpreted as "AI took 25% of the decisions" but in reality it means "it did 25% of the typing", which is immensely lame because I don't use AI and my IDE already autocompletes more than 25% of my typing.

   The question I'd ask though is - why would I even believe what they say?

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 19:32:45 JST tante

     I thought a bit about what Google's "25% of our code is AI generated" actually tells us: I am afraid not much.

     https://tante.cc/2024/11/01/what-do-25-mean/

     pettter and anban repeated this.
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     que :verifried: (que@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 02:53:26 JST que :verifried:

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     • tante

     @tante i found the more interesting fact was that google's energy usage over the last year has increased 50%.. horrifying.