Mark Zuckerberg ‘predicts’ AI will write most of Meta’s code inside 12 to 18 months

Mark Zuckerberg says he believes many of the Meta's code might be written by AI brokers someday inside the subsequent year-and-a-half. Zuckerberg made the prediction throughout an hour-long interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel.

"I might guess someday within the subsequent 12 to 18 months, we'll attain the purpose the place many of the code that's going in direction of these efforts is written by AI," stated Zuckerberg, referring to the corporate's efforts to construct inner AI brokers. "And I don't imply like autocomplete… I'm speaking extra such as you give it a objective, it will possibly run checks, it will possibly enhance issues, it will possibly discover points, it writes greater high quality code than the common superb particular person on the workforce already."

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg:
"inside 12-18 months, many of the code is written by AI"
It gained’t simply be autocomplete.
AI brokers will set targets, run checks, discover issues, and write higher code than prime engineers. pic.twitter.com/2del08UA45

— Haider. (@slow_developer) April 29, 2025

This isn’t the primary time Zuckerberg has made the sort of prediction. Throughout his awkward look on The Joe Rogan Experienceearlier this yr, he stated, "Most likely in 2025, we at Meta, in addition to the opposite corporations which can be mainly engaged on this, are going to have an AI that may successfully be a form of mid-level engineer that you’ve got at your organization that may write code."

Discover how the objective posts have moved. Lower than 5 months in the past, Zuckerberg stated coding brokers that would successfully exchange most human programmers have been inside attain. Now, those self same methods is not going to arrive by mid-2026 on the earliest.

The altering timelines underscore precisely why we must be vital of the AI trade and its many guarantees. AI brokers might very nicely someday exchange mid-level programmers, however proper now predictions just like the one made by Zuckerberg and lots of others are, at finest, ads for applied sciences that don't but exist and should by no means carry out on the degree their advocates say they’ll.

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