Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mentioned that 20%-30% of code inside the corporate’s repositories was “written by software program” — which means AI — throughout a fireplace 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 immediately. The Microsoft CEO mentioned the corporate was seeing combined leads to AI-generated code throughout totally different languages, with extra progress in Python and fewer in C++.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott beforehand mentioned he expects 95% of all code to be AI-generated by 2030.
When Nadella threw the query again at Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO mentioned 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 mentioned AI was producing greater than 30% of the corporate’s code. Of course, 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.