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Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/13/amodei-ai-code-claim-chowder
Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today

Link to: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3

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Mar 13 at 4:37pmDF Tootbot
Show threadRobert WatkinsMar 13

@daringfireball the measure of productivity in software development is not lines of code created. It’s lines of code per feature - and this should trend down in a good code base.

AI generated code swings the other way. This is a problem because lines of code are a liability, not an asset.

Show threadSteven Op de beeck6d ago
@daringfireball As a professional in this field — although not in Silicon Valley — this description feels wrong to me. I use AI every day, and have played around with agentic, and many people are experimenting, for sure. But it’s not nearly as you describe, certainly not where quality and control matters. Be aware of the bubble, and the picture these AI ceo’s are painting for investors. // @gruber
Also see: https://mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman/116215011361825054
Jason Gorman (@[email protected])

I've talked to ~100 developers across a wide range of organisations over the last 6 months about what they're *really* doing with "AI" coding assistants. I wouldn't worry about being "left behind". On software that matters, most folks are barely using it at all. And, so far, nobody I've spoken to is doing any of that advanced "agentic" stuff in their day jobs. Presumably because there are big potential consequences if their software breaks or leaks data.

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Show threadWu Evar 🇪🇺🇺🇦5d ago

@stevenodb

Yeah this “all praise AI” by @daringfireball lately is really annoying.

Then this assumptions “90% (or even more) of today’s code are written by AI” is just nonsense. To me it feels like @gruber is really deep in a rabbit hole right now.

I use it myself, but it’s a tool not the silver bullet.

Show threadMagnus Ahltorp6d ago
@daringfireball And then he discovered loops.