Still coding? Google says 75% of the company’s new code is AI-generated. In previous years, it was around 50% in 2025 and 25% in 2024.

# Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated Source: [https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generated-code-75-gemini-agents-software-2026-4](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generated-code-75-gemini-agents-software-2026-4)  Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis\.Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images - Three\-quarters of new code at Google is being generated by AI, the company said\. - The number has been steadily increasing as the company pushes staff to adopt AI tools\. - Google CEO Sundar Pichai said a recent code migration was done six times faster thanks to AI agents\. Three\-quarters of new code created inside Google is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, the company said Wednesday\. That number has been notching up in recent years\.[As of October 2024,](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earnings-q3-2024-new-code-created-by-ai-2024-10)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%\. The company[has been pushing employees](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-ai-adoption-non-technical-software-engineer-performance-review-2026-2)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 "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\. 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\. Some Google DeepMind employees have been permitted to use Anthropic's Claude Code in recent months, which has[created some tensions](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ai-tool-divide-internal-tensions-2026-4)between employees, Business Insider previously reported\. Google certainly isn't the only tech giant turning more to AI for coding\. 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,[said that same month he believed](https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-cto-ai-generated-code-software-developer-job-change-2025-4)95% of code would be AI\-generated within five years\. 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,"](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-push-employee-goals-tool-adoption-2-026-3)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\. Earlier this month, Snap said that under its new operating model, at least[65% of new code is generated by AI](https://www.businessinsider.com/snap-layoffs-ai-read-memo-snapchat-2026-4)\. *Have something to share? Contact this reporter via email at*[*hlangley@businessinsider\.com*](mailto:[email protected])*or Signal at 628\-228\-1836\. Use a personal email address and a non\-work device;*[*here's our guide to sharing information securely*](https://www.businessinsider.com/insider-guide-to-securely-sharing-whistleblower-information-about-powerful-institutions-2021-10)*\.* - [Google](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/google) - [Alphabet](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/alphabet) - [AI](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/ai) - More ## Read next