Coinbase CEO Armstrong Gives Engineers Week to Master AI Coding, Targets 50% AI-Generated Code

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong fired engineers who failed to adopt AI coding tools within a week of his mandate, as the crypto exchange pushes toward generating 50% of its code through artificial intelligence by October. “ ~40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated. I want to get it to >50% by October ,” Armstrong posted on X, making the company among the most aggressive adopters of AI development tools in the tech industry.) September 3, 2025 Just a few hours ago, former X engineer and startup founder Kache posted on X, “ 95% of my startup’s code is written by an LLM ,” quoting a projection from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, that “ by now, AI would be writing 90% of all code ”.