> Who swallows this stuff?

you'd be surprised, but i suspect its mostly for signaling to ceo/cio decision makers

  > 75% of their code started life as the output of a model mind you, it just "forgets" to mention the subsequent hours of humans put into reviewing

it its like at $work, they probably have some internal self-reporting benchmark from employees so i'd guess those numbers are inflated a bit...

  > unverifiable claims

it reminds me of the used car salesman saying "they're just like new"

  > blog.google used to be a reliable read

blog.google was always just a marketing channel, as is basically all corporate blogs afaik