The metric that matters is engineering velocity, not the share of code AI writes, and at Google AI has raised it by about ten percent.

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  The prediction that 90% of code will be AI-written by the end of 2025 deserves skepticism, though manual programming may yet become a horse: ridden for love, not transport.

  Pichai says the metric that matters is engineering velocity rather than the share of code AI writes, and puts Google gain at about ten percent. Hansson says the prediction that 90% of code would be AI-written by the end of 2025 deserves skepticism. They are arguing about the same number from opposite ends: one says it is the wrong number, the other that it is the wrong answer.

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