Microsoft CTO breaks down how he sees software developer jobs evolving in the next 5 years

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott expects the next half-decade to see more AI-generated code than ever — but that doesn’t mean human beings will be cut out of the programming process.

“95% is going to be AI-generated,” Scott said when asked about code within the next five years on an episode of the 20VC podcast. “Very little is going to be — line by line — is going to be human-written code.”

“Now, that doesn’t mean that the AI is doing the software engineering job,…