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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: 0.214s | 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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add-sub-mul-div ◴[13 Jul 25 23:20 UTC] No.44554707[source]▶
> If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend.

There are two strong forces at play. Employees generally want to put in the least amount of effort possible and go home at 5. Employers want to save money and pay for fewer employees. AI creates a strong symbiosis here and both sides are focused on a short term win.

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senectus1 ◴[14 Jul 25 00:34 UTC] No.44555189[source]▶
>Employees generally want to put in the least amount of effort possible and go home at 5.

Really?

In my experience coding engineers are coders because they enjoy the challenge. they like building things, breaking things and rebuilding things.

Its the white-collar 9-5 office workers that churn out power-point and word documents that want to do as little as possible.

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siddboots ◴[14 Jul 25 00:53 UTC] No.44555303[source]▶
Sometime very soon we’ll cross a threshold where most people can do most of their coding through a tool like Claude and be more productive. It will feel like coding still, breaking and building things, but they will get more done in the same time. Everyone will switch.
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1. oulu2006 ◴[14 Jul 25 01:46 UTC] No.44555659[source]▶
I'm already building whole projects now with AI -- not a single line of code by myself.

I love it, I've coded for 25 years and I don't need to write another line ever again, I just want to build cool things as fast as possible.