- Microsoft CEO SATYA NADELLA believes that about one-third of the company’s code is now AI written
- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes that half of its code will come from AI in a year
- Productivity benefits come at the expense of potential vulnerabilities and job losses
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that almost a third of the company’s code is now written by AI.
Nadella, who spoke to colleague-tech-Titan, Meta-Managing Director Mark Zuckerberg, at the company’s first “AI Innovation” conference, Nadella added that the number is upwards, possibly reaching as far as 40%, which is noted that AI is most effective in writing new code rather than changing the old code.
The news comes only months after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai revealed similar figures, claiming that more than quarter of Google’s code is now AI-generated.
Microsoft is using more and more AI-Generated Code
“I would say maybe 20-30% of the code that is in our repos today, and some of our projects are probably all written by software,” Nadella confirmed.
Despite asking the question when the same question was asked to Zuckerberg, he did not claim to “have this number from the top of [his] main.”
However, Meta’s leader offered a view of the company’s use of AI: “Our efforts are kind in the next year … Maybe half of the development is done by AI as opposed to humans, and it will rise from there.”
Neither Nadella nor Zuckerberg discussed potential job losses due to AI coding, but there was a brief discussion about developing roles.
“I tend to believe that … every engineer if it will effectively end up becoming more a similar technical leader in the future who have their own little army of AI agents with whom they work,” Meta’s CEO explained.
In response to the discussion on the Proton Mail X account, privacy-focused Swiss Office software company Proton said: “This is not the flex you think it is, Microsoft.”
It is unclear whether it was a tomb of potential vulnerabilities that could be introduced through AI-written code, the effects it can have on the workforce, or something else.
Techradar Pro have sought clarification on this.
See the full discussion between the two leaders on Meta’s YouTube channel.
