Meta-CEO Zuckerberg: "AI will write better code than developers"

In the next 12 to 18 months, Meta will have the majority of its program code written by AI. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this prediction in an interview with the American podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. To this end, the company is developing special AI agents for the research and development of its own Llama language models, explained the Meta boss.

There are already good applications that complete existing code blocks. However, in future it will be possible to give the AI agents a target for which they then create program code. The tool also carries out independent tests to find errors and then fix them. "The AI will produce higher quality code than the average, very good developer in the team," Zuckerberg expects.

Microsoft: 30 percent of code is AI-generated

In a conversation with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Llama Com, Zuckerberg estimated the current proportion of AI-written code at around 50 percent. However, he did not know any specific figures, as some statistics on the use of AI in programming would also include tools for automatic completion. At Microsoft, on the other hand, the proportion is currently around 20 to 30 percent, said Nadella.

Furthermore, his company includes between 30 and 40 percent of code suggestions from AI chatbots in repositories, explained the Microsoft CEO. This proportion is constantly increasing. Although AI support is particularly helpful when writing new program code, the technology is also used to revise the existing code base.

Both CEOs left open whether jobs will be lost in the future due to the use of AI during the discussion at Llama Con. In Germany, however, three quarters of companies can imagine using AI agents as a digital workforce.

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