Large technological companies do not only build AI – they use it more and more to write more about their code.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, said on Tuesday that between 20% and 30% of the code of some of the company’s projects was written by AI.
Addressing Mark Zuckerberg at the Llamacon conference in Meta, Nadella said that the precise figure depended on the programming language.
He added that Microsoft was based on AI for more than code generation. “The agents we have to examine the code-this use has increased,” he said, in a sign that the company weaves AI in the software development cycle.
Nadella is not the only big CEO of tech relying on AI for coding.
Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in calling on Alphabet’s profits, which, more than 30% of the new company code, was written by AI, against 25% in October.
In Llamacon, Nadella asked Zuckerberg what part of the Meta code had been created by AI, but the social media boss could not give a specific figure.
Instead, Zuckerberg gave a prediction for the building of AI Meta agents to help write and test the code for its lama models: “Our bet is that next year, perhaps, perhaps half of the development will be carried out by the AI as opposed to people, then it will increase from there.”
For the moment, Meta already uses AI in more closely defined areas, such as the classification of advertisements and food experiments, where the results can be measured closely, said Zuckerberg.
It is not only the largest technological companies that adopt AI for coding. Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, said during a February call for results that the company was suspected of engineering hiring in 2025 due to AI, which, according to him, increased engineering productivity by 30%.
In January, the Stripe payment company dismissed 300 employees, including people in engineering roles, reported Business Insider.
AI does not always reduce human coders businesses. Microsoft, for example, is considering another series of job cuts for intermediate managers and non-code, BI reported for the first time. They focus on increasing the share of contributors who write code by reducing its “PM ratio” – the number of product managers or programs per engineer.
Looking further, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott expects that within five years, 95% of all the code is generated by AI. “Very little will be a human written code,” he said last month on the Podcast 20VC.
However, he stressed that humans would remain essential to shape the high -level structure, the objectives and the design of the software.