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Google DeepMind VP Quits Coding, Hands It to AI Agents

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Benoit Schillings, VP of Technology at Google DeepMind, said he has stopped writing code and now relies on AI agents. He noted that about 80% of code on GitHub is machine-generated and predicted that within a year, humans won't review AI-written code. Schillings emphasized that humans will focus on system design, not code minutiae.

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A top Google exec declaring coding obsolete is a strong signal, but the timeline and security concerns around agentic code deserve scrutiny.
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