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    Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI

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    1. MetaKnowing on

      “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 said.

      Nadella asked Zuckerberg how much of Meta’s code was coming from AI. Zuckerberg said he didn’t know the exact figure off the top of his head, but he said Meta is building an AI model that can in turn build future versions of the company’s Llama family of AI models.

      “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,” Zuckerberg said.”

    2. mrwuss2 on

      I also have AI write code for me that ends up in production.

      It isn’t big news anymore.

    3. AndersDreth on

      I think it’s important to make the distinction between code that is written by A.I and sanity checked by senior developers, and code that has been written and sanity checked by A.I.

    4. bananafoster22 on

      I’d like to see the full picture, what is their architecture review process like? How do they manage AI gen code in new functions vs. existing refactoring?

      Microsoft surely could establish some fundamental controls and review processes that mitigate a lot of the risk in current AI coding, so I’m curious to see if this can be shared with industry or even more generally 

    5. This_They_Those_Them on

      lol yesterday I had Claude write me some automation js code for a program I’m working in. Gave the .js file and specific instructions on how to execute inside the program. The fucking software doesn’t even accept scripts. Wtf Claude..

    6. Kandiak on

      Written by software, which may or may not have been AI. Boilerplate code from an IDE is code written by code

    7. recallingmemories on

      It’s like saying autocomplete is writing 30% of my texts. There’s a human to supervise and confirm the code going in. It’s very useful, but not the “agentic AI” future I feel like the headlines are eluding to these days.

    8. Kaiisim on

      Is this why Windows 11 is dumb trash that has bugs that were fixed in windows 10?

    9. bogglingsnog on

      Well, this explains the constant stream of cloud outages and issues

    10. unleashedcode on

      I don’t know how that could be right… honestly A.I has “your experience may differ” written all over it. I don’t think I have ever seen any code from AI which was cut/paste and usable in any sense of the imagination. I’m a sole developer so maybe out of the loop. I just find that hard to believe. I would imagine the code has to be heavily vetted after injection?

    11. BBS_Bob on

      It shows, the bugs in the last years worth of windows updates have been insane. Who does regression testing with this stuff???

    12. Gold_Satisfaction201 on

      “As much as” is the same thing as saying “no greater than”.

    13. stusigh on

      I have a friend that works at a massive global finance company as a developer.

      She told me that there is a quota for AI generated content – *seventy* percent of their pull requests must be AI generated (self reported).

      All the devs hate it. Most of them do the actual work that the model fails on, then use AI to write large comments and tests (good and bad and pointless). Some of them just lie, as in they write the code themselves and then say it was AI. Some of them straight up just don’t meet the quota.

      But this means that they can say 70% of their code is generated by AI. So they get all their AI tooling for free from Microsoft, and Microsoft gets to say that 70% of the code is AI, and everyone’s stock goes up in this AI bubble.

      The emperor has no clothes (or at least is only in socks).

    14. MedicOfTime on

      This is a straight up lie. Jesus fuck the gaslighting. Microsoft is 50 years old now. Not that 100% of the code written in the last 50 years is still around, but to even entertain the idea that 30%? 20%? Hell not even 5% is “written by AI”.

      Source: I’m a dev at Microsoft and for the last year of “AI” barely a hundred lines of code have come from “AI”.

    16. mixduptransistor on

      30% of code is code completed by “AI” as developers are writing it

      This is an important statement by Nadella, even though there are still humans in the loop in every line of this code, their contribution is being completely ignored and erased

    17. Throwra504guy on

      Ai writes over 50% of the code I commit now.  It doesnt work on its own though, still needs direction to create the code and adjustments/refinements made afterwards, and someone who knows when to discard one of its changes.

    18. mmark92712 on

      I would love to see how they get to this number. What I gues it that they took the whole codebase and pass it to LLM to identify AI-generated code. And most of the detected code is likely to be comments.