Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says 40% of code at the company is written by AI, but his goal is to….

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CEO Brian Armstrong recently revealed that 40% of the daily code at the cryptocurrency company is written using artificial intelligence (AI). Sharing a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), Armstrong said that he wants to get it to nearly 50% by October this year. His post reflects a broader industry trend where tech giants like Microsoft and Google reported 30% and 25% AI-generated code respectively. “~40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated. I want to get it to >50% by October,” he wrote in the post.“Obviously it needs to be reviewed and understood, and not all areas of the business can use AI-generated code. But we should be using it responsibly as much as we possibly can,” he continued.Brian’s remarks with echoed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella who, during a conversation with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year, revealed that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence.

“I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,” Nadella said during the interview at Meta’s LlamaCon AI developer event. Similarly, CEO Sundar Pichai also said that over 25% of Google’s code is now written by AI. Speaking during the company’s third-quarter earnings call then, Pichai said “We are uniquely positioned to lead in the era of AI because of our differentiated full stack approach to AI innovation”.In a blog post recently, Coinbase said that the company is looking to expand use and familiarity with large language models, AI systems that process and generate human-like content. “In looking across the company, we find that teams that adopt LLMs at a faster rate are building frontend UI features, working with less-sensitive data backends, and quickly expanding their unit testing suites,” Coinbase said in the post. Revealing further, the company said that its AI adoption has increased since it started using the AI-powered code editor – Cursor.