Software & Internet Services · Recorded milestone
AI writes most new code
Recorded year2026
By April 2026 about three-quarters of Google's new code is generated by AI and reviewed by engineers.
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Led to
- Agent swarms run whole projectsForecast · ~2027enables
- Software by descriptionForecast · ~2027enables
- AI migrates legacy systemsForecast · ~2028enables
- Hit games made by one person with AIForecast · ~2028enables
- Legacy code made memory-safe by AIForecast · ~2028enables
- Verified-by-default softwareForecast · ~2028enables
- Self-maintaining softwareForecast · ~2030enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.