In one example, coders at software company Freshworks have been using ChatGPT to write code—and, in the process, cut the development time from around 10 weeks down to less than a week.

Dario Amodei, the CEO and cofounder of Anthropic, said AI could be coding most software soon. AI could be "writing essentially all of the code" in 12 months, Amodei said. He said he expected AI to ...