As much as 30% of Microsoft code now written by AI, CEO Satya Nadella says

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence.

“I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,” he told Mark Zuckerberg during a live conversation at Meta’s inaugural LlamaCon AI developer event in Menlo Park, Calif.

The amount of code being written by AI at Microsoft is increasing steadily, Nadella said.

As for Meta, Zuckerberg told Nadella he didn’t know the exact amount of code coming from AI.

But he said that Meta is working on an AI model powerful enough to build future programs for the company’s family of AI models.

“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.

Microsoft and Meta together employ tens of thousands of software developers.

But more and more tech companies have been mulling ways to replace human employees with AI bots to cut down on costs.

According to a McKinsey report, 30% of US jobs could be fully automated by 2030, while 60% will be significantly altered by AI tools. Goldman Sachs similarly expects up to 50% of jobs to be fully automated by 2045.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai in October said that more than 25% of the firm’s new code was written by AI.

Other executives have signaled they are rolling back new hires and mandating their teams lean more heavily on AI use.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke earlier this month told employees that they will have to prove AI cannot do a job before they ask for more headcount.

This week, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn similarly announced that the company will gradually stop using contractors for jobs that AI can take over, and will only approve further headcount for a team if AI cannot be implemented.