Google CEO Sundar Pichai just revealed that AI now generates more than a quarter of new code for its products, according to a company earnings callPichai did say that human programmers oversee the computer-generated code, which is something. The CEO noted that AI coding helps with “boosting productivity and efficiency," ensuring that engineers “do more and move faster.”
There’s no two ways around it. 25 percent is a lot, and Google is just one company relying on AI algorithms to perform complex coding tasks. According to, over 75 percent of respondents are already using or are “planning to use” AI tools to assist with software development. AnotherThis leads us to the rampaging elephant in the room. As AI continues to gobble up coding tasks, human experience starts to dwindle.
We aren’t quite there yet, but AI-assisted coding shows no signs of slowing down. The process started its meteoric rise back in 2022 when GitHub. Since then, companies like Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI have all released AI-coding software suites. GitHub recently announced that Copilot