Google engineers are openly mocking their own company's AI strategy and its 75% AI-generated code

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Google engineers are using internal platforms to mock the company's AI strategy and its Jetski AI coding system, arguing that AI-generated code merely shifts bottlenecks and adds to their workload rather than improving efficiency.

https://preview.redd.it/bagmboar986h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=58ab9ae0377d204e6f6ad83266c7830fc69288f3 According to a report by 404 Media, Google employees on the company's internal platform, Memegen, are sharply mocking its AI tools and coding system, Jetski. Employees complain that the technology is unreliable and makes their work harder, contradicting the optimistic statements of CEO Sundar Pichai. In April, Sundar Pichai noted that 75% of the company's new code is written by AI. However, engineers say this process simply shifts bottlenecks to other stages of development. Employees explain that reviewing and testing 100 individual tasks written by AI takes exactly the same amount of time as traditional engineering work. They assess that Google's infrastructure and engineering culture were built for stability, whereas the accelerated pace of AI directly conflicts with this approach. Source: [https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-employees-mocking-ai](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-employees-mocking-ai)
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