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What's happening with AI assisted programming inside each of the FAANG companies (or large unicorn startups)? Are they just using cursor et al? Do they have custom applications for vertical integration? Custom plugins?

Please feel free to share your insights from inside the larger tech companies and cultures.

So, many of us have been working with various IDE which has tightly integrated conversation and code generation features. With minimal prompting, one can extend existing programs to add intricate and complex functionality. It writes good code, and matches all the surrounding style etc.

Traditionally, programming (in a meta sense) is about this loop between thinking about what to code, and then writing that code. Sometimes you have to break the loop and go learn how to do something.

Very very generically speaking, your work-a-day software engineer might spend a morning like this:

A. Spend an hour reviewing requirements and decide what code to write, how it should be factored, etc.

B. Spend a few hours writing that code

Now, with good code generation from AI, step B might be cut down to 30 minutes for time to generate and then review the generated code.

I'm finding this experience to be very interesting.

Do you think this is going to be widespread enough that expectations around productivity are going to raise? Is it more likely that I have to deliver 4x more jira points or that I get 4x more free time each data in the office?