Tonight at Llamacon, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella conducted an interview to reveal how much of their product code is written by AI.
During Llamacon’s closing keynote, Zuckerberg asked Nadella how much code is now written by AI in Microsoft. Nadella’s response? “Maybe 20% to 30% of the code in our repository today, as well as some of our projects, may be all made by [AI] software.”
But when Nadella moved the problem back to Zuckerberg, his estimates for Meta’s near future were even higher. Zuckerberg said he doesn’t have the current numbers falling on his head, but “our bet is in the second year… maybe half of the development will be done by AI rather than the people, and that will increase from there.” Based on the exchange, it’s not entirely clear whether Zuckerberg refers specifically to Llama or Meta.
Anyway, it sounds like a big number for a technology that is still very new to the general public. However, in the technical world, the impressive coding capabilities of AI models are actively used to generate new code for these same AI models.
In the context, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently revealed that AI produces a quarter of the company’s code (each Engadget). Often, AI is used to increase the productivity of human programmers and sometimes takes up a lot, rather than completely displacing humans.
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Later, as conversations turned to agency system automation more of their respective businesses, Zuckerberg predicted: “Every engineer will actually be more of a technology-leading leader” and each of them has “small agents working with them.”
When Nadella called for new ways to measure advances in AI, the keynote spanned philosophy from technology, such as current proxy AI. For example, he wonders what AI technology will need to grow GDP by 10% in developing countries?
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As two of the world’s most powerful technology leaders, Zuckerberg and Nadella have strong beliefs about the potential of AI and their vast global initiatives to see them.
Nadella is an interesting choice for respondents to Llamacon keynote speech. As Microsoft’s leader, Nadella is closely intertwined with Openai, one of Meta’s main rivals.
Disclosure: Mashable’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against Openai in April, accusing it of infringing on Ziff Davis’ copyright in training and operating its AI systems.
