"Talking at Cisco's AI Summit in San Francisco on February 3, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made that pithy observation to sum up the phenomenon of people using AI coding tools to simply describe in plain language software they want to exist, with an algorithm doing the heavy lifting. The comment came during a wild, wide-ranging riff on how AI is changing the world, and Huang kept joking that his chatter might have been influenced by several glasses of wine."
"The earliest evidence that AI could transform how people program computers came even before ChatGPT's arrival, dating to when GitHub released the first version of its Copilot in 2021. At that point, AI was autocompleting snippets of code for humans rather than generating software from scratch. The progress has been radical since then, reflected in the boom for coding agents such as Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, and the industry's current darling, Anthropic's Claude Code."
"At the Cisco event, Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen, and other Silicon Valley luminaries talked about the whole industry having arrived at a crucial juncture in the pivot to AI software generation. Anthropic's chief product officer, Mike Krieger, whose boss, Dario Amodei, predicted last March that AI would be writing "essentially all of the code" within a year, suggested that's in the neighborhood of coming true-at least at Anthropic: 'Right now, for most products . . . it's effectively 100%.'"
AI coding tools have evolved from autocompleting snippets to generating full software from plain-language prompts. GitHub Copilot in 2021 initiated the shift by suggesting code snippets, and newer coding agents like Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, and Anthropic's Claude Code now attempt end-to-end generation. Industry leaders say AI is approaching the ability to write most product code, with some teams reporting near-complete automation for many products. The phenomenon of describing desired software and having an algorithm build it has been labeled vibe coding. Widespread AI-driven program generation could upend the tech industry and democratize software creation.
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