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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: 0.321s | 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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appreciatorBus ◴[13 Jul 25 22:35 UTC] No.44554415[source]▶
> 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.

Software engineers have been automating away jobs for other people for nearly a century. It would be quite rich if the profession suddenly felt qualms about the process! (TBC I think automation is great and should always be pursued. Ofc there are real human concerns when change happens quickly but I am skeptical that smashing the looms is the best response)

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another_twist ◴[13 Jul 25 22:55 UTC] No.44554552[source]▶
Software engineering has also been automating its own jobs for ages. The first thing we engineers do when asked to do a repetitive thing is find ways to automate it. I think the industry had qualms about losing their jobs. But honestly what are the examples of people losing their jobs to software ? Everybody says that this has happened many times yet examples are hard to come by.
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i_have_an_idea ◴[14 Jul 25 13:24 UTC] No.44559933[source]▶
> But honestly what are the examples of people losing their jobs to software ?

Bank tellers

Travel agents

Cashiers

Bookkeeping clerks

Typists

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1. growbell_social ◴[15 Jul 25 02:15 UTC] No.44567239[source]▶
Many of these still exist today, though is not as large of numbers. Maybe it's the same for software engineers. I still don't recall hearing of bank tellers accelerating the pace of ATMs or Travel Agents encouraging their clients to use Expedia.