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.
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