Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that 20%-30% of code inside the corporate’s repositories was “written by software program” — that means AI — throughout a hearth chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon convention on Tuesday.

Nadella gave the determine after Zuckerberg requested roughly how a lot of Microsoft’s code is AI-generated in the present day. The Microsoft CEO stated the corporate was seeing blended ends in AI-generated code throughout totally different languages, with extra progress in Python and fewer in C++.

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott beforehand stated he expects 95% of all code to be AI-generated by 2030.

When Nadella threw the query again at Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO stated he didn’t understand how a lot of Meta’s code is being generated by AI.

On Microsoft rival Google’s earnings name final week, CEO Sundar Pichai stated AI was producing greater than 30% of the corporate’s code. After all, it’s unclear how precisely Microsoft and Google are measuring what’s AI-generated versus not, so these figures are greatest taken with a grain of salt.