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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: 0.318s | 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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growbell_social ◴[13 Jul 25 21:29 UTC] No.44553908[source]▶
I don't disagree it's a naive take, and I would love to read about some examples where this happened.

I haven't seen too many industries be automated away first hand, and I'm sure there are historic examples. I wouldn't expect the lamp lighters to have been championing the rise of electric lamps. Maybe they did though because it meant they could work less hours.

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madeofpalk ◴[13 Jul 25 23:23 UTC] No.44554724[source]▶
Software developers have been automating away software developers since the beginning of the field. Higher level languages, better+safer languages, improved IDEs. All the ways in which we made developing software easier and more efficient. QA teams investing in automated testing.
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1. kadushka ◴[15 Jul 25 00:56 UTC] No.44566876[source]▶
At some point, if this process continues, it is expected to actually automate software developers, would you agree?