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

67 points growbell_social | 2 comments | 13 Jul 25 20:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | 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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notfried ◴[13 Jul 25 22:09 UTC] No.44554230[source]▶
Not OpenAI, but Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger said in response to a question of how much of Claude Code is written by Claude Code: "At this point, I would be shocked if it wasn't 95% plus. I'd have to ask Boris and the other tech leads on there."

[0] https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropics-cpo-heres-what...

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dude250711 ◴[13 Jul 25 22:30 UTC] No.44554371[source]▶
They are likely lying:

https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance

> During take-home assessments Complete these without Claude unless we indicate otherwise. We’d like to assess your unique skills and strengths. We'll be clear when AI is allowed (example: "You may use Claude for this coding challenge").

> During live interviews This is all you–no AI assistance unless we indicate otherwise. We’re curious to see how you think through problems in real time. If you require any accommodations for your interviews, please let your recruiter know early in the process.

He'd have to ask yet did not ask? A CPO of an AI company?

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wahnfrieden ◴[14 Jul 25 00:06 UTC] No.44554989[source]▶
That's not evidence of anything to do with their hired developers. Interview practices have never reflected on-the-job practices
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1. levocardia ◴[14 Jul 25 01:47 UTC] No.44555668[source]▶
95% of Claude Code was actually written on a whiteboard!
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2. Lionga ◴[14 Jul 25 06:37 UTC] No.44557102[source]▶
95% of Claude Code is actually just inverting a binary tree