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Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?

6 growbell_social 2 7/13/2025, 8:22:00 PM
Amidst the nascent concerns of AI replacing software engineers, it seems a proxy for that might be the amount of code written at OpenAI by the various models they have.

If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend. I personally don't view it as a threat, but some people (non engineers?) obviously do.

I'd be curious if any OpenAI engineers can share a rough estimate of their day to day composition of human generated code vs AI generated.

Comments (2)

crop_rotation · 29m ago
> If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend.

This is a naive take. Throughout history things have been automated with the help of professions who were being automated away.

growbell_social · 9m ago
I don't disagree it's a naive take, and I would love to read about some examples where this happened.

I haven't seen too many industries be automated away first hand, and I'm sure there are historic examples. I wouldn't expect the lamp lighters to have been championing the rise of electric lamps. Maybe they did though because it meant they could work less hours.