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200 Google Reports Halving Code Migration Time With AI Help

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/17/2025 19:02 EDT

Google Reports Halving Code Migration Time With AI Help

Google computer scientists have been using LLMs to streamline internal code migrations, achieving significant time savings of up to 89% in some cases. The findings appear in a pre-print paper titled "How is Google using AI for internal code migrations?" The Register reports: Their focus is on bespoke AI tools developed for specific product areas, such as Ads, Search, Workspace and YouTube, instead of generic AI tools that provide broadly applicable services like code completion, code review, and question an

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