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People overestimate faang. There are many talents working there, sure, but a lot of garbage gets pumped into their codebases as well.



Devs who pride themselves on their capacity for rational thought seem to forget that regression to the mean applies everywhere...even to the places that they aspire to.


>a lot of garbage gets pumped into their codebases

I would imagine it always has.

>Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

It may very well be starting to become apparent anyway :\




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