#ai-assisted-programming

#ai-assisted-programming

L.L.M.s are especially good at writing code, in part because code has more structure than prose, and because you can sometimes verify that code is correct. While the rest of the world was mostly just fooling around with A.I. (or swearing it off), I watched as some of the colleagues I most respect retooled their working lives around it. I got the feeling that if I didn't retool, too, I might fall behind.

As AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Codex become more prominent, certain aspects of coding are being automated. For instance, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company's first quarter earnings call this year that over 30% of Google's code is AI-generated. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in April that for some company projects, AI writes between 20% and 30% of the code, and it's increasingly using agents to review code, as well.