Interview: How Google refactored 250M lines of C++ and why CS curricula need a redo
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-31
Gergely Orosz interviews Titus Winters (Google, author of "Software Engineering at Google") on how Google refactored 250M lines of C++ pre-AI, what happened when Search couldn't ship on cadence due to regressions, mandatory testing culture, Abseil, readability reviews, psychological safety and layoffs, AI-assisted rewrites, and why he thinks the CS curriculum needs a complete redo.
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