AI to write most of Meta's code within 18 months, says Zuckerberg

ETA CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that artificial intelligence will soon take over the majority of the coding responsibilities for the company's Llama project, with AI expected to write most of the code within the next 12 to 18 months.

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In a podcast interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Zuckerberg said AI is already performing at the level of an "average very good person" on a software team and will soon surpass even the top engineers. "I think sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we will reach the point where most of these codes that are going towards these efforts will be written by AI," he said. "And I don't mean like autocomplete. Today, you have good autocomplete, where if you start writing, it [AI] can complete that section of the code. I mean, if you give it a goal, it can run tests, it can find issues, it will write higher quality code."