Satya Nadella says up to 30% of Microsoft code is written by way of AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday mentioned that up to 30% of the corporate’s code is now written by way of synthetic intelligence.

“I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,” Nadella mentioned throughout a dialog prior to a are living target audience with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The pair of CEOs had been talking at Meta’s inaugural LlamaCon AI developer tournament in Menlo Park, California. Nadella added that the quantity of code being written by way of AI at Microsoft goes up ceaselessly. 

Nadella requested Zuckerberg how a lot of Meta’s code was once coming from AI. Zuckerberg mentioned he did not know the precise determine off the highest of his head, however he mentioned Meta is construction an AI style that may in flip construct long run variations of the corporate’s Llama circle of relatives of AI fashions.

“Our bet is sort of that in the next year probably … maybe half the development is going to be done by AI, as opposed to people, and then that will just kind of increase from there,” Zuckerberg mentioned.

Microsoft and Meta in combination make use of tens of hundreds of device builders, however they are the most recent corporations to talk about how AI is changing probably the most paintings written by way of human device builders. 

Since OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in past due 2022, folks have became to AI for quite a lot of duties, together with customer support paintings, producing gross sales pitches and device construction itself. 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai in October mentioned that greater than 25% of recent code was once written by way of AI. Earlier this month, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke informed workers that they are going to must turn out AI can not do a task prior to requesting extra headcount. Similarly, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on Monday introduced in a memo that the language-teaching corporate will step by step flip to AI in lieu of human contractors. 

Earlier this month CNBC and different shops reported that OpenAI was once in talks to achieve Windsurf, a startup with “vibe coding” device that spits out complete techniques with a couple of phrases of enter. The dream is that with machines serving to to jot down code, organizations will have the ability to produce extra and higher device.

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