“Microsoft still plans to hire more software engineers than it has today, but it cares more about what makes them human and less about their technical abilities.”
– Reed Albergotti
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says about of a third of its code is now written by AI models and that will make the nature of human input more valuable than ever. His comments to Semafor coincuded with Microsoft’s annual developer conference.
Nadella says future workl will require much more than “clean lines of code.”
“You can’t just come in and say, ‘I’m smart. I have a bunch of ideas, but I don’t know exactly what to do.’ No, you have to know what to do when it is ambiguous, when it is uncertain. So that bringing clarity is super, super important.”
– Satya Nadela to Semafor
Microsoft helped kick off the AI boom. It needs humans more than ever, its CEO says | SEMAFOR | May 19, 2025 | by Reed Albergotti