{"id":435856,"date":"2026-01-25T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435856\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:38:10","slug":"google-ai-studio-and-gemini-api-product-head-logan-kilpatrick-says-thanks-to-ai-engineers-are-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435856\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Studio and Gemini API product head Logan Kilpatrick says: Thanks to AI, engineers are now\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/logan-kilpatrick-lead-product-for-google-ai-studio-and-gemini-api-says-thanks-to-ai-engineers-are-no.jpeg\" alt=\"Google AI Studio and Gemini API product head Logan Kilpatrick says: Thanks to AI, engineers are now\u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Engineers are becoming artists and artists are turning into engineers, all thanks to AI\u2014at least according to Logan Kilpatrick, who leads product for Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. In a post on X that\u2019s racked up over 627,000 views, Kilpatrick captured what he sees as a fundamental shift in how creative and technical work now overlap. \u201cEngineers are artists now thanks to AI,\u201d he wrote, \u201cand artists are becoming engineers, all in a positive sense.\u201dThe comment reflects a growing sentiment in Silicon Valley that AI coding tools are erasing traditional boundaries between disciplines. <a href=\"https:\/\/gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com\/brands\/Google\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a> CEO Sundar Pichai recently said AI now writes over 30% of new code at Google, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claimed Claude generates 90% of his company\u2019s code. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has gone even further, saying he wants his engineers to stop writing code entirely and focus instead on \u201cdiscovering undiscovered problems.\u201d At Nvidia\u2019s recent all-hands meeting, Huang reportedly pushed back against managers who told teams to reduce AI usage, asking bluntly: \u201cAre you insane?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AI tools expanding access beyond traditional coders<\/p>\n<p>Kilpatrick\u2019s observation aligns with Pichai\u2019s recent comments that \u201cvibe coding\u201d\u2014using AI to build software with minimal technical knowledge\u2014is making development \u201cexciting again\u201d and more accessible to non-technical workers. From HR professionals to accountants, people across industries are now using tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Cursor to prototype apps and automate workflows without formal coding training.<\/p>\n<p>Reality check: productivity gains remain uncertain<\/p>\n<p>But the optimism isn\u2019t universal. Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor\u2014the $29 billion AI coding assistant Nvidia has adopted company-wide\u2014warned developers against blindly trusting AI-generated code. \u201cIf you close your eyes and have AIs build things with shaky foundations, things start to kind of crumble,\u201d he told Fortune. Research backs up the skepticism: a METR study found AI assistants actually decreased experienced developers\u2019 productivity by 19%, despite participants expecting significant gains.Even Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director who coined the term \u201cvibe coding,\u201d admitted his recent project was \u201cbasically entirely hand-written\u201d because AI agents \u201cjust didn\u2019t work well enough.\u201d His warning to fellow programmers: \u201cI\u2019ve never felt this much behind. The profession is being dramatically refactored.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Engineers are becoming artists and artists are turning into engineers, all thanks to AI\u2014at least according to Logan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,7413,191827,254,255,64,63,5004,227588,113,95598,227589,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-435856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-coding-tools","10":"tag-ai-in-software-development","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-au","14":"tag-australia","15":"tag-chatgpt","16":"tag-gemini-api","17":"tag-google","18":"tag-google-ai-studio","19":"tag-nvidia-ai-tools","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}