Google engineer: no measurable AI-driven research acceleration, 88% of code changes still need oversight
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-15
DeepMind engineer Haydn Belfield says there is no measurable acceleration of AI research driven by AI, and self-improving AI is "not anywhere close."
- Google's in-house General Capability Index shows steady capability growth with no sudden speedup
- AI now writes over 75% of production code, but 88% of changes still require human oversight
A first-hand internal perspective from Google pushing back on aggressive recursive-self-improvement predictions.
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