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I mean… it is objectively the truth to quote the CEO of MS as saying what he said, whether or not he is lying or using a misleading metric. The only questionable things about the quote, imo, are > Other tech companies can’t be far off. First, MS and Google are working on coding assistants so I’d expect them to be quite ahead of the curve in terms of what their CEOs report. Both in terms of what they are actually doing (since they have a bunch of people working there who are interested in AI coding assistants, surely they are using them). And in terms of that the head advertisers for these products, the CEOs are willing to say (although I should be clear, I’m not even necessarily saying he’s lying or being misleading. He’s in charge of a company that is advertising some AI tool, maybe all his reports are also emphasizing how good the dogfood is). Second and relatedly, quoting a AI tool salesman on how much of his company’s code is written by AI… eh, it is a big company, the CEO of MS is a known figure. But maybe they should be explicitly skeptical toward him. As you note, I wouldn’t be surprised if MS was itself far off from what he said in the quote, let alone other companies… Although, if he says: > "I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today [...] written by software". Depending on how you look at it, that doesn’t necessarily preclude, like, classic macros and other classic code generation tools, so actually I have no idea what it even means. If an AI touches a JavaScript minifier, does it get credit for all the JavaScript that gets generated by it? Haha. |