There's no more hiding from AI if you're a software engineer. Google Cloud released a report on Tuesday about AI-assisted software development. The study, from the tech giant's DevOps Research and ...
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Google Cloud released a report on Tuesday about AI-assisted software development. The study, from the tech giant's DevOps Research and Assessment team, shows that AI adoption has surged to 90% among software professionals. That's a 14% increase from last year.
The findings are based on a survey of 5,000 global technology professionals and more than 100 hours of qualitative interviews. Developers and other professionals are spending a median of two hours daily using AI in their core workflows, according to the survey.
Nathen Harvey, who leads the DevOps Research and Assessment team, told Business Insider that the findings indicate that using AI in the workplace is nearly universal.
"It's almost to the point where we could have asked these technologists, 'Are you using a computer at work?"' said Harvey, a developer advocate at Google Cloud.
With AI increasingly being used on the job to generate and review code, write documentation, create test cases, and analyze data, the role of a software engineer is already changing, Google's Ryan J. Salva said.
