Microsoft says 30% of the companys code was generated by AI
Microsoft started developing AI's that code code over a decade ago, and now AI is becoming the company's primary coder.
Key takeaways
- Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today.
- The Microsoft CEO said the company was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott previously said he expects 95% of all code to be AI generated by 2030.
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Griffin, M. (2025) 'Microsoft says 30% of the companys code was generated by AI', 311 Institute, 3 May. Available at: https://www.311institute.com/microsoft-says-30pc-of-the-companys-code-was-generated-by-ai/ (Accessed: 1 October 2026).
During a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning Artificial Intelligence (AI) – and it follows on from Amazon saying that they’d used AI to save 4,500 man years of coding, and Google using AI to write over 25% of the company’s code.
Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today. The Microsoft CEO said the company was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott previously said he expects 95% of all code to be AI generated by 2030.
When Nadella threw the question back at Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO said he didn’t know how much of Meta’s code is being generated by AI. Of course, it’s unclear how exactly Microsoft and Google are measuring what’s AI generated versus not, so these figures are best taken with a grain of salt. But, either way if you’re a software developer the writing is on the wall – AI is here, it’s coming for your job, and it’s getting much much better faster.
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Microsoft started developing AI's that code code over a decade ago, and now AI is becoming the company's primary coder.
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Source: first published by the 311 Institute on 3 May 2025. Cite as: Griffin, M. (2025). Microsoft says 30% of the companys code was generated by AI. 311 Institute. https://www.311institute.com/microsoft-says-30pc-of-the-companys-code-was-generated-by-ai/
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