Re: Microsoft admits 30% of code not written by humans

On 4/30/25 09:05 PM, vallor wrote:

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:27:20 -0400, knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> wrote
in <vuubkp$1ahuo$1@dont-email.me>:
 

On 04/30/2025 5:17 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:

Another reason not to use Microsoft's software: they are actively
destroying jobs for human beings.
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<https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/04/30/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-
reveals-30-of-companys-code-written-by-ai/>
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In a discussion at Meta’s inaugural “LlamaCon” AI developer event,
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shed light on
the growing role of artificial intelligence in software development
within their respective companies. Nadella claims that up to 30 percent
of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI.
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CNBC reports that during a conversation at Meta’s LlamaCon AI developer
event in Silicon Valley Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that as
much as 30 percent of the company’s code is now written by AI. This
startling revelation highlights the rapid integration of AI in the
software development process.
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Nadella emphasized that the percentage of AI-generated code within
Microsoft’s repositories is steadily increasing. When asked about the
extent of AI’s involvement in Meta’s code generation, CEO Mark
Zuckerberg, while unable to provide an exact figure, shared that the
company is developing an AI model capable of building future versions
of their Llama family of AI models.
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“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.
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The statements from Nadella and Zuckerberg underscore the significant
shift occurring in the software development landscape. With Microsoft
and Meta employing tens of thousands of software developers, the impact
of AI on the industry is becoming increasingly apparent. The launch of
OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 has accelerated the adoption of AI for
various tasks, ranging from customer service to sales pitches and
software development itself.
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Microsoft and Meta are not alone in this trend. Google CEO Sundar
Pichai previously stated that more than 25 percent of new code at
Google was written by AI. Similarly, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke recently
instructed employees to prove that AI cannot perform a job before
requesting additional headcount. Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn also
announced plans to gradually replace human contractors with AI.
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That has been obvious since the DOS days

 But the hell of it is:  with _competent_ humans reviewing
the AI code, it should save work.
 See my report to comp.ai.shells where I gave ChatGPT the output of
"ifconfig -a", and had it spit back a netplan yaml file, then walk
me through editing into the file some policy routing rules...and other
strange and wonderful tasks.
 

Granted I don't have CoPilot write an operating system, but I have had a few code snippets written for my own purposes.   And I do like how it explains what it does, and I can ask for slight changes, even a different approach if I find it doesn't work in my case.
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