AI Writing Google’s Code

Google said on April 22 that 75% of its new code is now generated by artificial intelligence and then approved by engineers. (blog.google) Chief Executive Sundar Pichai gave the figure in a post tied to Google Cloud Next 2026, the company’s annual cloud conference. He said the share was 50% last fall, which marks a sharp jump in a matter of months. (blog.google) The underlying shift is simple: engineers use software that predicts, drafts, and rewrites code, then humans review what the system produced before it ships. Google described that process in October 2024, when Pichai said more than a quarter of its new code was already being generated by AI and accepted by engineers. (abc.xyz) Google paired the coding claim with a broader push into “agentic” tools, its term for software that can carry out multi-step tasks with less hand-holding. At Cloud Next, the company introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a system to build, scale, govern, and optimize large numbers of AI agents. (cloud.google.com) (blog.google) That matters inside Google because code generation is no longer being framed as a side tool for autocomplete. Pichai said engineers are now “orchestrating” autonomous digital task forces, which places AI deeper in day-to-day software development work. (blog.google) The company is also spending heavily to support that shift. Alphabet told investors in February that 2026 capital expenditures are expected to run between $175 billion and $185 billion, primarily to expand AI compute and technical infrastructure. (fool.com) Google is making the same pitch to customers. Thomas Kurian, the chief executive of Google Cloud, said on April 22 that nearly 75% of Google Cloud customers are already using the company’s AI products, and that customer demand pushed Google’s first-party models to process more than 16 billion tokens per minute through direct application programming interface use. (cloud.google.com) (blog.google) The number does not mean 75% of all Google software is published without human checks. In both the 2024 and 2026 descriptions, Google said engineers still review and approve the machine-generated code before it is accepted. (abc.xyz) (blog.google) Google’s message is that writing code with AI has moved from an internal productivity experiment in October 2024 to a routine production workflow by April 2026. The next test is whether that speed holds up as more of the company’s software work is handed to agents and then checked by humans. (abc.xyz) (blog.google)