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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: 0.509s | 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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1. legacynl ◴[14 Jul 25 12:37 UTC] No.44559459[source]▶
> I would be shocked if it wasn't 95% plus.

This is classic marketing speak. Plant the idea of 95+% while in actuality this guy doesn't make any hard claims about the percentage. It can just as well be 0 or 5%.

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2. bravesoul2 ◴[14 Jul 25 13:06 UTC] No.44559757[source]▶
"You lied" "No I didn't. Look my face is shocked can't you tell?"