{"id":301958,"date":"2025-05-01T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=301958"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:45:48","slug":"satya-nadella-confirms-it-30-of-microsofts-code-is-written-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/satya-nadella-confirms-it-30-of-microsofts-code-is-written-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Satya Nadella confirms it: 30% of Microsoft\u2019s code is written by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a revealing conversation at LlamaCon, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that&nbsp;<strong>artificial intelligence now generates about 30% of the code<\/strong>&nbsp;across some of the company\u2019s projects. This insight underscores a major shift in how big tech companies are embracing AI for software development, highlighting not only its growing capabilities but also its increasing acceptance among engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI is becoming a core developer at Microsoft<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nadella explained that&nbsp;<strong>Microsoft closely tracks acceptance rates of AI-generated code<\/strong>, which currently range between 30% and 40% and are steadily rising. The AI tools are proving especially effective at producing&nbsp;<strong>entirely new blocks of code<\/strong>, rather than editing existing software. While much of Microsoft\u2019s infrastructure remains in C++\u2014a language where AI still underperforms\u2014the newer Python codebases have shown&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;fantastic&#8221; results when written by AI systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meta sees a similar future<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same panel, Meta&#8217;s Mark Zuckerberg revealed that his teams are also exploring self-coding systems. While Meta doesn\u2019t yet have hard figures, Zuckerberg predicted that&nbsp;<strong>AI could be responsible for up to 50% of coding within a year<\/strong>, especially in machine learning projects. Both executives emphasized that the evolution of development tools and infrastructure is critical to supporting this transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The line between app and document is fading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nadella also noted a deeper shift: the convergence of tools like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a unified AI-driven experience. He envisioned a future where&nbsp;<strong>you start with a simple intent and end with a living software artifact<\/strong>, blurring traditional boundaries between applications and data formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a revealing conversation at LlamaCon, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that&nbsp;artificial intelligence now generates about 30% of the code&nbsp;across some of the company\u2019s projects. This insight underscores a major shift in how big tech companies are embracing AI for software development, highlighting not only its growing capabilities but also its increasing acceptance among engineers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/satya-nadella-confirms-it-30-of-microsofts-code-is-written-by-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Satya Nadella confirms it: 30% of Microsoft\u2019s code is written by AI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":301959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-301958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307416,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301958\/revisions\/307416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301958"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=301958"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=301958"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=301958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}