Can someone from Microsoft or a FAANG company describe to me what's been going on with AI this year? What's happening on your team, and company wide? How is the push from higher-levels actually influencing changes in your day to day experience?

I work for a mid-sized global software corporation in a niche industry. We're talking about AI in biweeky, company-wide meetings. It's mostly the older devs (age 40/50+) talking about the different ways we're using it, or planning to use it. The younger ones spend less time talking about it.

Right now, on my team, we're using it for unit tests. Having more success recently, especially if we get the prompts right, and it generate new units for new code. We fill in the additional edge cases. It's a great time saver.

Code completion is a mixed bag. I find it helpful, and easy to ignore bad auto commenting/code. Others are reporting being anoyed with it.

Other ideas and to have AI start writing features based on acceptance criteria. And, to perform log analysis. Everything else is too detailed (and abstract) to really describe. Everyone's changing the model to Claud. I don't know how the company's hiring or performing layoffs. Nothing significant in either way. Not like I hear on Reddit anyway.