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Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?

67 points growbell_social | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 20:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | source

Amidst the nascent concerns of AI replacing software engineers, it seems a proxy for that might be the amount of code written at OpenAI by the various models they have.

If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend. I personally don't view it as a threat, but some people (non engineers?) obviously do.

I'd be curious if any OpenAI engineers can share a rough estimate of their day to day composition of human generated code vs AI generated.

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crop_rotation ◴[13 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44553761[source]▶
> If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend.

This is a naive take. Throughout history things have been automated with the help of professions who were being automated away.

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1. iknowSFR ◴[13 Jul 25 22:03 UTC] No.44554175[source]▶
Yeah, this needs to be considered down to the individual level. If your employer not only incentives you to go against your best interests but also threatens the stability of your role, then your choices are either do the job or accept that you might not be reliably employed. This is the culmination of decades of moving power from the employee to the employer.