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GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom

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strict9 ◴[23 Jun 25 21:19 UTC] No.44360243[source]▶
It's interesting to see a CEO express thoughts on AI and coding go in a slightly different direction.

Usually the CEO or investor says 30% (or some other made up number) of all code is written by AI and the number will only increase, implying that developers will soon be obsolete.

It's implied that 30% of all code submitted and shipped to production is from AI agents with zero human interaction. But of course this is not the case, it's the same developers as before using tools to more rapidly write code.

And writing code is only one part of a developer's job in building software.

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1. nextlevelwizard ◴[24 Jun 25 09:02 UTC] No.44364182[source]▶
I love that the 30% quote is so miss used. You probably should watch that clip again and actually listen what he said.
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2. strict9 ◴[24 Jun 25 13:32 UTC] No.44366084[source]▶
The 30% reference wasn't referring to this article, but by other CEOs like Microsoft.

And those without understanding what the number means or how it was derived write misleading articles.

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3. nextlevelwizard ◴[25 Jun 25 06:04 UTC] No.44374062[source]▶
I was talking about the Microsoft CEO quote everyone is misquoting. He said something to affect of "at Microsoft we have _some_ repos where up to 30% of the code is _generated_". This could mean they have one C++ repo for one tool that has 30% generated header files without any LLM usage at all. Of course that is probably not what he meant and the least generous view, but I find it extremely suspect to believe that any large company, much less Microsoft, would have third of their code produced by LLMs. I find it hard to believe any profitable software company has that high of a percentage.