Tech CEOs say the era of ‘code by AI’ is here. Some software engineers are skeptical

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Tech CEOs are making ambitious claims about AI’s coding capabilities. In March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said “we’ll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code.” Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted in April that for one project “in the next year probably … maybe half the development is going to be done by AI.” Executives of Amazon, Google and Microsoft have also highlighted large language models’ (LLMs’) abilities to generate code.

AI tools have changed how coding works for some developers and there are now fewer of the most junior software engineers. But despite the dramatic

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