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How Google’s dev tools manager makes AI coding work


Google PM Ryan Salva is responsible for tools like Gemini CLI, giving him a front-row seat to the ways AI tools are changing software development.

His team released new third-party research on Tuesday showing how developers actually use AI tools – and how much progress is left to make. On the professional side, product managers tend to live in documents, so the first thing is using AI to help me write the specification and requirements docs. Across the engineering team, we have a couple of different layers of rules and Markdown docs that get consumed by the model, just laying out our way of working: Here’s how we do testing, here’s how we manage dependencies, and so on.

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