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Chris_Newton
on June 25, 2025
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-2000 Lines of code (2004)
Or the current industry favourite, “
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% of our new code is now written by AI!”
Cthulhu_
on June 26, 2025
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Microsoft, the number being 30%; whether that's accurate is another matter. Twenty years ago people already used IDEs to generate boilerplate code (remember Java's getters/setters/hashCode/toString?) because some guy in a book said you had to.
thomashop
on June 26, 2025
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I use AI to simplify code. My manifesto has always been code is debt. Works really well too.
nyarlathotep_
on June 27, 2025
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In Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler.
cb321
on June 26, 2025
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LOL. There was a time when people were excoriated for committing generated object code into version control..
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