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Google engineer Titus Winters on refactoring 250M+ lines of C++ code

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Titus Winters, formerly of Google and now at Adobe, discusses his experiences with large-scale code refactoring and the evolution of software engineering education. He highlights a massive 2010 refactoring effort at Google involving over 250 million lines of C++ code, which utilized advanced parsing techniques before the advent of LLMs. Winters also touches on the mandatory implementation of automated tests at Google and his work on updating undergraduate computer science curriculum guidelines. AI

IMPACT Discusses potential shifts in CS education and the evaluation of AI benefits, impacting future developer training.

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Google engineer Titus Winters on refactoring 250M+ lines of C++ code

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