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“Probably in 2025 we will have an AI that can effectively be a mid-level engineer that can write code.”
- Said
- Jan 2025
- Closed
- Dec 2025
- Source
- podcast →
- Verdict
- unclear
What would settle this
Would require a system operating at mid-level engineer scope without supervision, evidenced by Meta or a comparable company publishing an internal measure. Assistants used by human engineers do not meet it. No such measure was published either way.
Written when the claim went on the record, on 7 August 2026, before the outcome was known. How the record works →
Readers split 35 to 65 on this one. Nobody was right, because nothing could settle it.
419 on record
Coding assistants became standard practice during 2025, but no system was shown operating autonomously at the level of a mid-level engineer, and Meta published no internal measure either way. The claim was made about an internal capability nobody outside the company can verify, which is what makes it unsettleable.
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About Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and chief executive of Meta, which develops the open-weight Llama models and in 2025 formed a Superintelligence Lab. Has given repeated near-term dates for AI replacing software engineering work inside his own company.
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