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More than 95 percent of Coinbase's code now comes with AI in the loop

7/15/2026

AI-assisted development, the practice of using machine-generated suggestions to help engineers write and review software, now accounts for more than 95% of the code shipped at Coinbase.

Rob Witoff, an executive at the crypto exchange, described the company as leaning harder on AI for execution tasks. The carve-out: judgment and strategy still belong to people.

What that 95% figure does and does not say A number like "95% of code written with AI help" is a wide tent. At one end of the range, a developer accepts an autocomplete suggestion on a single line.

At the other, an AI agent drafts entire modules and a human reviews the output. Witoff did not specify where Coinbase's workflow sits on that spectrum, so the figure describes participation, not authorship.

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