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Mark Zuckerberg 'predicts' AI will write most of Meta's code within 12 to 18 months

Another day, and another overly optimistic prediction about how quickly AI will replace coders.

I'm talking more like you give it a goal, it can run tests, it can improve things, it can find issues, it writes higher quality code than the average very good person on the team already." Less than five months ago, Zuckerberg said coding agents that could effectively replace most human programmers were within reach. AI agents may very well one day replace mid-level programmers, but right now predictions like the one made by Zuckerberg and many others are, at best, advertisements for technologies that don't yet exist and may never perform at the level their advocates say they will.

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