Re: “Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI”

On 4/30/2025 2:57 PM, Paavo Helde wrote:

On 30.04.2025 04:40, Lynn McGuire wrote:

“Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI”
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-ceo-says-30- companys-002116317.html
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“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday.”
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“Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI-generated today. The Microsoft CEO said the company was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.”

 Currently all my C++ code is written with the help of AI (Github copilot). It basically replaces some googling. some find-and-replace and some recorded macros (which Visual Studio ditched several years ago) and sometimes offers some interesting code proposals. Still, at the moment I would say it is ca 50-50, I am not exactly sure if the overall effort of checking and fixing its code takes less time than figuring the correct approach out myself. At least it feels like communicating with someone who understands vaguely what I am doing for living! Hey, that's something ;-)
 

FWIW, I use MSVC a lot, has copilot. Never tried it. I don't want that sucker to insert code into my flow, or alter anything. Actually, I don't know what it does. Sigh. Anyway, MSVC is not all that bad. Working on a Unity project and, it uses C#, but MSVC is there as my editor. Then, funny, it (unity) deploys into an intermediate form, C++. then I compile it, and deploy it to my xbox in dev mode. Works good, but its funny that it uses C++ as a medium. It think its C++, not "managed" C++ fro the winfolk... ;^)