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Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch

If they mean “30% of the code we wrote last month” then I might believe it. Though I bet it is not across the board but deep in one or two areas. Still, it’s a crazy number.

But he said something like “30% of the code in our repositories” which would mean everything, including their entire legacy of code. And that I simply do not believe.

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Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Its a shit article with Tech crunch changing the words to get people in a flap about AI (for or against), the actual quote is

“I’d say maybe 20 percent, 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software”

“Written by software” reasonable included machine refactored code, automatically generated boilerplate and things generated by AI assistants. Through that lens 20% doesnt seem crazy.

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- MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’ve been “automatically writing code” for a system of about a dozen modules - we specify a glue file in .json between all the modules and the code generating software makes units to go in each module to do the communication interfacing based on the glue spec. That system has been running for more than 10 years now, it writes a couple hundred thousand lines of “new code” every time we modify the glue file.
  
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- degen@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The A stands for Automation, right?
  
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MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
My first thought on reading that is: yeah, like about 98% of the human genome is “junk DNA” that we have little or no idea what it might be doing. Sometimes when we cut it out, nobody ever notices, sometimes when we cut it out the system won’t boot up.

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they entered the codebase for Windows 11 into an LLM and asked it to optimize it or some shit lol

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- MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  And surprise surprise, it’s worse than ever
  
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  - spicehoarder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Funny considering windows 7 consists of exactly 0% AI generated code.
    
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- degen@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  lmao I just said the same thing before reading your comment
  
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- scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah that’s a good point.
  
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degen@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Of course it’s just bad writing, but I kind of wouldn’t put it past management to try shoving their multitude of codebases through an LLM at this point.

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