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Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI

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

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I don’t believe that datum for a second considering how big their existing code bases are.

It doesn’t have to be contiguous AI-written chunks. This could also mean X% accepted AI suggestions on Y% codebase where X*Y AI suggestions can also be as simple as autocomplete and still be counted for the sake of engagement metrics.

Oh and in enterprise settings and especially MS shops Github Copilot is being pushed everywhere, (forceful) adoption rates are much higher than the market average.

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

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> Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software”

and

> 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++.

So the CEO of Microsoft is saying that 20 - 30% of their code is being produced by computer systems that write poor code?

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

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> Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” and > 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++. So the CEO of Microsoft is saying that 20 - 30% of their code is being produced by computer systems that write poor code?

Honestly, it is disappointing. Even joke jobs are taken away by LLMs. For shame.

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

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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

Does it mean AI though? Lots of lines in repositories are generated by software that isn’t AI. Dependency lock files, proto files, etc

IMO the wording is intentionally misleading.

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