Meta’s AI engineer will arrive in 2025 and will be sort of a mid-level engineer
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During the recent interview with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg said Meta will have the AI engineer in 2025 that will be sort of a mid-level engineer but will be expensive to run at the beginning.
"I think this year, probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of mid-level engineer that you have at your company, that can write code. And once you have that, then in the beginning it will be really expensive to run, then you can get it to be more efficient, and then over time we’ll get to the point where a lot of the code in our apps, and including the AI that we generate, is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers, " he said. “But I don’t know. I think that that’ll augment the people working on it. So my view on this is the future, people are just going to be so much more creative, and they’re going to be freed up to do kind of crazy things,” he added. (min 2:08:15).
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This comes after Google said last quarter that more than 25% of new code in the company is now generated by AI. Similarly, Amazon said its developer agent had saved the company more than $260 million. Salesforce also said they are not adding any software engineers this year since they have increased productivity Agent Force and other Ai technology that they are using by more than 30%.
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Devin, an AI software engineer developed by Cognition AI looks particularly interesting, it is said to be able to perform Upwork developer jobs.
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Based on this commentary, it’s likely that the AI engineer will initially replace the mid-level jobs and not the junior and senior developers (min 9:53).
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The other interesting AI agent is Open AI’s Operator, which is in beta version. According to a live YouTube test, the agent was able to order stuff from Instacart and only experienced minimal issues.
Assessment
Based on the above, it appears that Meta was late to the party. However, real-world AI engineers already exist, giving lowering the risks of its deployment.