Google Reveals 75% of New Company Code Is Now AI-Generated
Three-quarters of new code written at Google is now generated by AI. That number — disclosed by CEO Sundar Pichai at Google Cloud Next 2026 — is significant not just for its size, but for how fast it got there. In late 2024: 25%. Last fall: 50%. Today: 75%. That’s a tripling in roughly 18 months. At one of the world’s largest software engineering organizations. What Google Is Actually Doing The AI-generated code at Google isn’t replacing engineers — it’s going through them. Every line is reviewed and approved by a human engineer before it ships. The shift is in where the initial work happens: increasingly, the first draft comes from AI tools, and engineers spend their time reviewing, correcting, and directing rather than typing from scratch. ...