alt Hacker NewsFAANG here (service oriented arch, distributed systems) and id say probably 20+ percent of code written on my team is by an LLM. it's great for frontends, works well with test generation, or following an existing paradigm.
I think a lot of people wrote it off initially as it was low quality. But gemini 3 pro or sonnet 4.5 saves me a ton of time at work these days.
Perfect? Absolutely not. Good enough for tons of run of the mill boilerplate tasks? Without question.
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As someone currently outside FAANG, can you point to where that added productivity is going? Is any of it customer visible?
Looking at the quality crisis at Microsoft, between GitHub reliability and broken Windows updates, I fear LLMs are hurting them.
I totally see how LLMs make you feel more productive, but I don't think I'm seeing end customer visible benefits.
> probably 20+ percent of code written on my team is by an LLM. it's great for frontends
Frontend has always been shitshow since JS dynamic web UIs invented. With it and CSS no one cares what runs page and how many Mb it takes to show one button.
But regarding the backend, the vibecoding still rare, and we are still lucky it is like that, and there was no train crush because of it. Yet.