30% of Microsoft's Code Has Been Written by AI

While AI has been making employees in every field nervous, bosses of big companies are ecstatic about leaving their projects for the tech to handle. Microsoft embraced AI a long time ago, and now, it deals with a sizable chunk of its code.

During LlamaCon, its CEO Satya Nadella said that AI writes "fantastic" Python code, although C++ could use improvement. He also revealed that "maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today in some of our projects are probably all written by software," meaning AI (via The Register).

AI writes new code rather than modifies old one at Microsoft, but it still sounds a little bizarre considering code is the basis of Microsoft's products.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, who was also there at LlamaCon, couldn't tell how much code is written by AI in his company. He believes that "in the next year probably … half the development is going to be done by AI as opposed to people and then that will just kind of increase from there."

Microsoft agrees, as its CTO Kevin Scott previously said 95% of all code would likely be AI-generated by 2030. Meanwhile, Google is racing with the company even here: AI writes about 30% of its code, too.

Zuckerberg thinks AI coding will improve security. Not surprisingly, no one mentioned how many jobs it was going to cost.

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