Three-quarters of new code created inside Google is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, the company said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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That number has been notching up in recent years. As of October 2024,<\/a> around a quarter of the company’s code was AI-generated, Google said at the time. Last fall, it said the number had risen to 50%.<\/p>\n The company has been pushing employees<\/a> to use AI both for coding and other tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Wednesday that the company was shifting to “truly agentic workflows” with its engineers running more autonomous tasks<\/p>\n “Recently, a particularly complex code migration done by agents and engineers working together was completed six times faster than was possible a year ago with engineers alone,” Pichai said.<\/p>\n Google’s engineers are using its Gemini models for generating code, and some have been set specific AI goals that will be factored into performance reviews this year.<\/p>\n Some Google DeepMind employees have been permitted to use Anthropic’s Claude Code in recent months, which has created some tensions<\/a> between employees, Business Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n Google certainly isn’t the only tech giant turning more to AI for coding.<\/p>\n In April last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that between 20-30% of the code for some of the company’s projects was written by AI. Its CTO, Kevin Scott,\u00a0said that same month he believed<\/a>\u00a095% of code would be AI-generated within five years.<\/p>\n Meta is pushing hard in this direction, too. As of the fourth quarter of 2025, the company had set a goal that 55% of code changes from software engineers in some orgs should be “Agent-Assisted,”<\/a> according to a document reviewed by Business Insider. For the first half of 2026, 65% of engineers in its creation org are expected to write more than 75% of their committed code using AI, it stated.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Snap said that under its new operating model, at least 65% of new code is generated by AI<\/a>. <\/p>\n Have something to share? Contact this reporter via email at hlangley@businessinsider.com<\/a> or Signal at 628-228-1836. Use a personal email address and a non-work device; here’s our guide to sharing information securely<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-quarters of new code created inside Google is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,2356,9956,739,12553,1711,180823,180819,61,60,180820,180822,31888,180821,5402,80,3322,11381],"class_list":{"0":"post-411906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-business-insider","12":"tag-code","13":"tag-company","14":"tag-employee","15":"tag-google","16":"tag-hlangleybusinessinsider","17":"tag-human-engineer","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-new-code","21":"tag-org","22":"tag-quarter","23":"tag-recent-month","24":"tag-recent-year","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-time","27":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}