“Every engineer will essentially become like a CTO, and have their own little army of AI agents.” Zuckerberg believes that AI will write half of all code next year

Zuckerberg made this prediction at the LlamaCon AI developer conference on April 29.

Zuckerberg also shared his prediction, predicting that «AI will drive half of all development next year, and that percentage will increase even more in the future.» He didn’t specify whether this applies to Meta as a whole, but added that he’s focused on strengthening AI and machine learning engineers to advance his Llama 4 model.

Zuckerberg predicted that «every engineer will actually become more like a technical lead,» where each of them will have «their own little army of agents that they work with.»

However, industry analysts say that AI itself is responsible for half of the coding, a phenomenon that clearly demonstrates the trend towards AI replacing human developers.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai also said last year that more than 25% of Google’s new code is written by AI. And Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20-30% of the company’s code is already written by AI. «AI has written 20-30% of the code in the repository, and some projects were probably developed using AI,» he said. Meta has cut 5% of its workforce, mostly for poor performance, and IBM said it would not hire people to do tasks that could be replaced by AI in 2023.

Previously, Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and now Chief Product Officer at AI company Anthropic, said that the role of software engineers is rapidly changing, and that they will soon start reviewing «routine code» created by artificial intelligence, rather than writing it themselves.

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman says the rapid emergence and adoption of AI could force software developers to stop coding, forcing them to upskill in the field to gain new skills.

Their statements come amid the growing popularity of the programming technique vibe-coding, which involves delegating the writing of code to AI chatbots based on user instructions. It was first described by Andrey Karpaty, a former OpenAI researcher and now director of artificial intelligence and computer vision for Autopilot at Tesla.

«I ask [the AI ​​chatbot] the dumbest things, like ‘halve the sidebar padding,’ because I’m too lazy to figure it out myself. I always ‘Accept All,’ I don’t read the differences anymore,» he says.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has suggested that the rapid development of artificial intelligence could lead to a near-total takeover of coding tasks within the next year.

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