AI to write 95% of code in five years: Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott

Microsoft chief technology officer (CTO) Kevin Scott has predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) will generate 95% of all code within the next five years. Despite the sweeping nature of this transformation, Scott emphasised that human developers will continue to play a vital role in software engineering.

Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Scott said that in the near future, most code will not be written by humans. “Very little is going to be — line by line — human-written code,” he said. But he made it clear that this does not mean human…