Microsoft's CEO says AI has written 20% to 30% of the company's code

AI has multiple use cases; it isn’t just useful for composing emails, summarizing web pages, or generating Ghibli-style art images. If you are a developer, you must be aware that AI assistants can be a useful tool when it comes to writing code. Guess what? AI has also written code inside Microsoft’s repositories.

Microsoft has used AI to write up to 30% of its code, reveals its CEO

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed these details yesterday at Meta’s first-ever AI event, LlamaCon. Speaking with Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Nadella revealed that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software.” By saying that, he was referring to AI.

Nadella gave the estimated figure after Zuckerberg asked how much of Microsoft’s code is written by AI. The CEO also said that they have been seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different coding languages. He mentioned there’s more progress in Python as compared to C++.

Microsoft’s CTO, Kevin Scott, previously expected that AI would write nearly 90% of the company’s code by 2030. When Nadella fired the same question back at Zuckerberg, he didn’t know the answer.

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Google’s CEO had a similar say about AI-generated code

More recently, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also revealed that about 30% of the company’s code is written by AI. It’s unclear how companies are determining the volume of code written by AI and not. But it surely hints at companies’ reliance on AI to streamline their workflow.

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