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Title: Mark Zuckerberg 'predicts' AI will write most of Meta's code within 12
to 18 months

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:38:52 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/mark-zuckerberg-p...

Mark Zuckerberg says he believes most of the Meta's code will be written by
AI agents sometime within the next year-and-a-half. Zuckerberg made the
prediction during an hour-long interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel.

"I would guess sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we'll reach the point
where most of the code that's going towards these efforts is written by AI,"
said Zuckerberg, referring to the company's efforts to build internal AI
agents. "And I don't mean like autocomplete... I'm talking more like you give
it a goal, it can run tests, it can improve things, it can find issues, it
writes higher quality code than the average very good person on the team
already."

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg:

"within 12-18 months, most of the code is written by AI"

It wonΓÇÖt just be autocomplete.

AI agents will set goals, run tests, find problems, and write better code
than top engineers. pic.twitter.com/2del08UA45

ΓÇö Haider. (@slow_developer) April 29, 2025

This is not the first time Zuckerberg has made this type of prediction.
During his awkward appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience earlier this year,
he said, "Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that
are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively
be a sort of mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write
code."

Notice how the goal posts have moved. Less than five months ago, Zuckerberg
said coding agents that could effectively replace most human programmers were
within reach. Now, those same systems will not arrive by mid-2026 at the
earliest.

The changing timelines underscore exactly why we should be critical of the AI
industry and its many promises. AI agents may very well one day replace mid-
level programmers, but right now predictions like the one made by Zuckerberg
and many others are, at best, advertisements for technologies that don't yet
exist and may never perform at the level their advocates say they will.

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