AI's already replaced Microsoft's developers, writing 30% of code

Microsoft is actively implementing generative tools during development, and currently 20% to 30% of the code in the company's internal repositories is written by AI. It was emphasized by CEO Satya Nadella during the fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the LlamaCon conference.

TechCrunch writes about it.

Microsoft actively uses AI to write the code of its developments

When asked by Zuckerberg about the current share of AI-generated code, Nadella explained that the results depend on the programming language: Python is making significant progress, while C++ is moving more slowly.

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott has previously predicted that by 2030, 95% of all software code will be written by AI.

Turning the question to the interlocutor, Nadella asked about the share of machine code in Meta, but Zuckerberg admitted that he did not have such data at the moment.

Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on a conference call that AI generates more than 30% of the code in their projects. At the same time, it remains unclear what criteria Microsoft and Google use to distinguish between human and machine code, so these figures should be taken with some caution.

As a reminder, the Australian radio station broadcast the show hosted by AI for months. Listeners were not informed about this either in the programme description or on air.

We also wrote that researchers from the University of Zurich were quietly posting comments generated by AI on Reddit. The platform's moderation, which revealed the experiment, called it a "psychological manipulation" of 3.8 million subreddit participants.