CEO Sundar Pichai reveals Google’s ‘Most Important Metric’ and how company is tracking it

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing the productivity of the company’s software engineers. He also noted that the Alphabet-owned tech giant is actively measuring the impact of AI on its engineers. During a recent episode of the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” Pichai explained that Google is closely observing how AI is boosting the output of its software developers. As per Pichai, it is “the most important metric,” and the company “carefully measures it.” He even mentioned that Google actively measures “how much has our engineering velocity increased as a company due to AI?” Pichai noted that the company currently estimates a 10% boost in engineering velocity attributed to AI.

How Google tracks AI’s role in increasing productivity of its engineers