{"id":231628,"date":"2025-07-02T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231628\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:14","slug":"google-issues-official-internal-guidance-on-using-ai-for-coding-and-its-devs-might-not-be-best-pleased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231628\/","title":{"rendered":"Google issues official internal guidance on using AI for coding &#8211; and its devs might not be best pleased"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Google issues engineer-developed guidance on using AI for coding<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Around one-third of the company&#8217;s code is now AI-generated<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Other companies are also using AI more to code<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google has issued new usage guidance and best practices for its internal developers using generative AI to help them code, and it may not come as a surprise the tech giant is pushing the security agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Following a period of experimenting with AI and determining its use cases, the document was actually created by engineers (via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/06\/30\/google-engineers-ai-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/06\/30\/google-engineers-ai-code\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\">9To5Google<\/a>) before getting approved and disseminated.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance broadly encourages developers to adopt AI to boost productivity, enable faster iteration and enhance product development, however the importance of humans in maintaining security is stressed.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>Google shares AI coding guidelines with workers<\/p>\n<p>The guidance reportedly covers using AI for coding assistance, its limitations and building AI-based systems. However, Google also noted it wants to see workers adopt AI in other regions of their work to help boost productivity further.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, humans clearly remain an integral part of the development process, with code review, security and maintenance all areas that require further work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our engineering teams are already regularly using our <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-ai-tools\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-ai-tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI tools<\/a> for coding, fixing bugs, and much more,&#8221; the company confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These recommendations and best practices, developed by a group of software engineers at Google, are designed to help all SWEs across the company get the most out of AI in their day-to-day work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!<\/p>\n<p>The push comes amid growing industry-wide adoption of GenAI in software engineering. Earlier in 2025, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that around one-third of the company&#8217;s code is now AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies, including <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/microsoft\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft<\/a> and Meta, are also increasing the amount of AI-generated code they use, and a recent <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/ai-coding-assistants-are-getting-ever-more-popular-especially-in-this-country\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/ai-coding-assistants-are-getting-ever-more-popular-especially-in-this-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> found that 30.1% of US Python code on GitHub was AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s most formal guidance on AI in coding to date could also go on to inform policies for other companies. It also highlights the company&#8217;s growing reliance on generative AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>You might also like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google issues engineer-developed guidance on using AI for coding Around one-third of the company&#8217;s code is now AI-generated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-231628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114782904177364083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}