Mark Zuckerberg claims that Meta's artificial intelligence will be able to write the majority of the code for its services in the near future. An evolution that would completely call into question the role of human developers in the company.
At Meta, artificial intelligence is not only used to recommending videos or powering chatbots. The group's boss, Mark Zuckerberg, now claims that AI could very soon replace a large proportion of the developers who work on services like Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp. According to him, in the next 12 to 18 months, the majority of the code used internally could be generated automatically. A statement that suggests profound upheavals in the group's working methods.
In a recent interview, Zuckerberg clarified that these AI assistants would not just complete lines of code. He talks about agents capable of “receiving an objective”, “performing tests”, “correcting errors” and even producing code “of better quality than that of an excellent human developer”. In other words, these artificial intelligences could accomplish complex technical tasks on their own, without direct human intervention, large scale.
Mark Zuckerberg promises AI capable of coding better than an experienced developer, as early as 2026
This isn't the first time the Facebook founder has made this type of prediction. Earlier this year, he already claimed that AI could act like a mid-level computer engineer. At the time, he spoke of an achievable goal of 2025. Now, he's talking about a timeframe of up to mid-2026. A shift that shows that the technology may not yet be as advanced as announced. But that doesn't stop Meta from pursuing its ambition to automate as many tasks as possible.
This announcement is part of a broader strategy led by Meta around AI. In recent months, the company has begun using public posts on Facebook and Instagram to train its models, without prior user consent. It has also ended professional fact-checking in the United States, replacing it with a community-based system. From now on, it is the Internet users themselves who evaluate the veracity of content. Between data collection, automated moderation and assisted development, the company is clearly betting on a business driven by artificial intelligence.
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