AI writes 20-30% of Microsoft's code: educators debate what schools should still teach
Stefania_druga · x · 2026-10-04
In "Beyond the Answer" for The ACCJ Journal, Michael Omoto asks what schools should teach now that AI is both coder and tutor.
- Satya Nadella says 20-30% of Microsoft's repo code is AI-written, some past halfway; Sundar Pichai puts Google at roughly a quarter to a third. The author's 15-person startup no longer handwrites code.
- Linus Torvalds' analogy: compilers already write 100% of code and nobody brags about it — but compilers are reliably correct, LLMs are not.
- Interviews with four educators (incl. former Code.org CTO Simon Guest) converge: the goal shifts from an "answer machine" that optimizes time-to-answer to a "teaching tool" that optimizes what students can learn to do themselves — e.g., design the house's structure first, then let AI build the parts.
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