Mark Zuckerberg predicts when AI will be able to generate most of the company’s code

Mark Zuckerberg has predicted when most of the code for the company’s Llama project will be written by AI. The Facebook founder says that AI is already as good as the “average very good person” in a team, but soon it will be better than the top coders. Zuckerberg says that currently AI is very good at auto-completing a section of a code.
“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. And I don’t mean like autocomplete,” the Meta CEO said in a podcast interview with Dwarkesh Patel.
“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 than an average very good person on the team already,” said Zuckerberg.

The Meta CEO says that AI is “fully plugged into our tool chain” and that it is building a coding agent and an AI research agent which will specifically help the company with its Llama projects.
“We are working on a number of coding agents inside Meta, because we are not really an enterprise software company, we are primarily building it for ourselves. So, we are making it for a specific goal,” Zuckeberg expained.
“We are not trying to build a general developer tool, we are trying to build a coding agent and an AI research agent that basically advances Llama research specifically. It is fully plugged into our tool chain. I think that’s important. And it is going to end up being an important part of how stuff gets done,” Zuckerberg added.
Mark Zuckerberg shared the same opinion in another interview earlier this year, where he said that "we will get to a point where all the code in our apps and the AI it generates will also be written by AI engineers instead of people engineers". He said that AI is already good enough to be able to replace a mid-level software developer.