The New CEO Flex: Bragging About How Much AI Code Your Company Shipped

CEO Brian Chesky said Airbnb is producing more code with AI than the industry average, with 60% of the code its engineers produce coauthored with AI.

“This isn’t just an efficiency story,” Chesky said on a May 7 earnings call. “It means our teams are shipping faster, iterating more quickly, and delivering more improvements to guests and hosts than we could before.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in October that Claude is writing 90% of the code generated by most teams at the company.

“I made this prediction that in six months, 90% of code would be written by AI models,” Amodei said at the annual Dreamforce conference. “Some people think that prediction is wrong, but within Anthropic and within a number of companies that we work with, that is absolutely true now.”

That doesn’t mean engineers’ jobs are obsolete. Amodei said that companies still need as many engineers, if not more, to review code and supervise the AI models.

AI-powered development is “quickly becoming the norm” at fintech firm Chime, CEO Chris Britt said on a May 6 earnings call. Britt said that 84% of the code Chime shipped in March was developed with AI, up from 29% four months ago.

He previously touted AI as a driver for efficiency across Chime in a February call.

Chime is building its own AI-native software factory, called Archimedes, to turn ideas into products with AI agents doing the majority of the development.

“AI is driving operating leverage at scale, increasing levels of output while keeping head count flat,” Britt said on the May call.

Real estate brokerage firm Compass is also getting in on tech advancements. CEO Robert Reffkin told analysts on May 5 that AI coding has sped up product development velocity by 20% while operating expenses remain unchanged.

“We now estimate that 30% to 40% of all new code written at Compass is produced by AI,” Reffkin said.

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu highlighted productivity gains from AI in a May 6 earnings call. AI has helped the company deliver features to customers faster, Xu said.

“About well north of half of our code, as an example, probably closer to two-thirds of our code is written by AI today,” Xu said.

But Xu said productivity isn’t everything.

“We’re shipping more code, but the ultimate question I have is, are we actually delivering better outcomes for customers?” Xu said, adding that the company is still figuring that out. “Because at the end of the day, that’s the only thing that really matters.”

Adtech company DoubleVerify was asked about how it’s ramping up engineer productivity with AI during a May 6 earnings call. CEO Mark Zagorski said the company is using agents to create code, resulting in 40% faster software development.

King, the AI recruiter, said “engineering is historically the most expensive line item” in the operating budget for software-as-a-service businesses like DoubleVerify.

“It’s also one of the few functions where AI productivity gains are actually measurable,” he said.

David Gandler, CEO of streaming platform Fubo, said AI adoption and its ability to accelerate revenue are “underrated” in his industry. For Fubo, about 35% of its code is completed with AI, Gandler said during a May earnings call.

“About 200 of our employees now use either ChatGPT or Claude Code to really drive more effectiveness and efficiency,” Gandler said. “Some of our top engineers actually don’t code anymore.”

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has said that 50% of its code is written by agents and checked by human engineers.

“Certainly it helps our engineers do more, move faster with the current footprint,” chief financial officer Anat Ashkenazi said of AI in a February earnings call.

CEO Sundar Pichai said on April 29 that the company is pushing into the next frontier of foundation models, including agentic coding, with its platform Antigravity, and that the latest technology is transforming how the company works.

“With Antigravity, we are shifting to truly agentic workflows,” Pichai said on the April earnings call. “Our engineers are now orchestrating fully autonomous digital task forces and building at a faster velocity.”

For over a year, Zuckerberg has maintained that AI could soon do the work of midlevel engineers.

“Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code,” Zuckerberg said on a January 2025 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

The tech giant has increased output per engineer by 30%, with most of that growth coming from the adoption of agentic coding, the company said in its January earnings call.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company is seeing the use of AI grow at “unbelievable rates,” and Uber isn’t being left behind. Khosrowshahi told analysts in May that Uber is investing more in AI and less in hiring.

AI agents produce about 10% of the company’s code now, he said.

“If every person at this company can increase their throughput by 20%, 30%, 50%, 100%, then I think metering headcount growth and leaning in on AI investment is going to be well worth it,” he said.