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"Generative AI can speed up the more mundane parts of software development, and software developers tend to adopt efficiency tools quickly," he added.
Persons:
—, That's, Jennifer Chayes, Gavin Newsom, Fei, Fei Li, There's, John DeNero, He's, DeNero
Organizations:
Service, Business, University of California, UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley's College of CDSS, Stanford, Joint California, Science, Google, Berkeley
Locations:
University of California Berkeley, San Francisco, Lilt