Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that around 20-30 per cent of the company’s code is now AI-generated.
“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 told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a discussion onstage before a live audience.
The two tech industry leaders were speaking at Meta’s first-ever AI developer event called LlamaCon held in Menlo Park, California, US, on Tuesday, April 29. Nadella further suggested that the use of AI tools to write code is gradually increasing at Microsoft.
As for Meta, Zuckerberg said he did not know how much of the social media giant’s code was AI-generated. “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,” he said, in reference to plans of building an AI model that can itself develop upgraded iterations of Meta’s Llama series of AI models.
These remarks come amid a growing debate in the tech industry over vibe-coding and the impact of AI on software engineering job roles. The rollout of increasingly advanced AI coding tools have led many to question whether they should learn to code or learn to prompt.
In April this year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also revealed that 30 per cent of new code at the company is AI-generated.
“This has been an extraordinary amount of focus and excitement internally, both because I think the early use cases have been transformative in nature, and it still feels like early days and long ways to go,” Pichai said during the company’s Q1 earnings call.
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The development of AI coding tools is gaining momentum as well. Last month, CNBC reported that OpenAI was looking to acquire Windsurf, a new tech startup that has developed AI coding tools.
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