In 2019, a software engineer — at Google or indeed anywhere else — would have heard of advances in machine learning, and how deep learning has become remarkably effective in fields such as computer vision or language translation. However, most of them would not have imagined, let alone experienced, the ways in which machine learning might benefit what they do.Just five years later, in 2024, there is widespread enthusiasm among software engineers about how AI is helping write code. And a signific...