Satya Nadella, Microsoft: “I'd say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our rep…”

I'd say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,

Satya NadellaChairman and Chief Executive Officer · Executive, Microsoft

Interview: CNBC (news), CNBC (news), April 29, 2025.

30% ai code share, as of 2025-04. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] One to two years old Microsoft: $332 billion revenue, FY2026 Sells AI tools

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Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Microsoft's CEO, speaking on the company's earnings call about GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary.

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Exact match of the direct quote: "I'd say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software," Nadella said. The speaker is Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, speaking for the company. The trailing comma comes from the CNBC quote punctuation.

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Satya Nadella (Microsoft), “CNBC (news)”, CNBC (news), 2025-04-29. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/microsoft-id-say-maybe-20-30-code-inside-2025

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