Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu points AI-generated code is ‘needlessly verbose’, says he is ‘impressed and not Super Awed’

As tech CEOs around the world advocate for AI-written code, Zoho Chief Scientist and co-founder Sridhar Vembu has offered a candid assessment of AI’s role in software development. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Vembu detailed how his team scrutinised C++ code produced by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 model, highlighting both the strengths and limitations of current AI coding tools.