The Verification Crisis (opens in new tab)

Software is eating the world, and now artificial intelligence is eating software. Cursor alone produces nearly one billion lines of accepted code every day, according to co-founder Aman Sanger. That figure exceeds what all human developers on the planet write combined. GitHub's 2024 developer survey found that 97 per cent of developers have used AI coding tools. Microsoft has disclosed that 30 per cent of code in some of its repositories is now written by AI. Google has acknowledged that roug...