India, April 30 -- Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming software development, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the shift is well under way at his company. Speaking at Meta's first-ever LlamaCon AI developer conference in Menlo Park, California, Nadella revealed that as much as 30% of the code in Microsoft's repositories is now generated by AI systems.

"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 told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a public conversation. He added that the proportion is "steadily going up," signalling a broader industry shift toward automation in programming.

Zuckerberg, in turn, said he didn't have a precise f...