Almost everyone agrees that by 2026, 99% of code will be generated by AI?

Dario Amodei (Anthropic AI CEO):

"We are not far from a world where 90% of code is written by AI."

Sergey Brin (Google Co-founder):

"Writing code from scratch now feels incredibly difficult. In comparison, letting AI write it directly is much easier."

Andrej Karpathy (Former OpenAI Researcher):

"I just look at things, say things, run things, copy and paste things, and most of the time it works."

Jared Friedman (YC Partner):

"95% of their code (a YC-incubated startup) is AI-generated."

Professor Andrew Ng:

"As programming becomes easier, more people should learn to code, not fewer!"

Arvind Krishna (IBM CEO):

"I think the number is closer to 20-30%, not 90%."

Naveen Tewari (Tech Entrepreneur):

"My CTO will achieve 80% automation in software coding by the end of this year. We’ve already reached 50%."

Andriy Burkov (AI Expert):

"Language models can help with the first 70%, but they can’t complete the last 30%."

Kunal Shah (Entrepreneur):

"Every expert must become AI-native to remain competitive, regardless of their field. Those who refuse to adapt will be left behind."

François Chollet (Creator of Keras):

"Code itself has almost no value; it’s more of a burden than an asset. What truly matters is problem-solving ability."

Mark Cuban (Investor):

"AI is never the answer; AI is a tool. Whatever skills you have, you can enhance them with AI."

Cursor (A self-proclaimed somewhat popular AI coding assistant):

"I can’t generate code for you because that would be doing your job for you."

AI may generate most of the code in the future (e.g., 90% or more), but it also emphasizes the irreplaceability of humans in specific areas such as domain knowledge, oversight, and creativity.

70%, 80%, 90%—these numbers signal that the barrier to programming is lowering, but the demand for professional domain knowledge is increasing.

Code is no longer the bottleneck; thinking and professional insight are.

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