Three years ago, saying AI helped write your software sounded risky. Today it is what the largest engineering teams in the world describe in public. Here is what four of their leaders have said, and what it means if you are paying for software.
Google: from a quarter to three quarters
In October 2024, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said on an earnings call that more than a quarter of new code at Google is "generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers" (TechRadar).
By April 2026, he put the figure at about 75% of all new code, described as:
"AI-generated and approved by engineers"
Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, April 2026 (Semafor)
Notice the second half of that sentence. The code is not simply generated. Engineers approve it.
Microsoft: a fifth to a third of the code
At LlamaCon in April 2025, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, estimated that "maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos" is written by software (TechCrunch).
Nvidia: every engineer
In October 2025, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said all of Nvidia's software engineers and chip designers use Cursor, an AI coding tool. In his words: "We now have AIs for all of our engineers" (Business Insider via AOL).
TCS: what this does to pricing
In February 2026, K. Krithivasan, CEO of TCS, said AI can lift IT services delivery productivity by about 20-30%, and that the industry should move to outcome-based pricing instead of billing tied to labour. He also pointed out that the work itself keeps growing: "Every time there is a disruption, the work expands." (Angel One, citing CNBC-TV18).
What this means if you are buying software
- AI in the workflow is normal. Asking a software development company whether it uses AI now matters less than asking how.
- Review is what counts. The phrase to look for is the one Google uses: approved by engineers.
- Pricing should reflect the hours it takes now. If AI reduces the hours, a quote built on pre-AI estimates deserves a question.
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Figures as publicly stated by each company's leadership. AIGyde is not affiliated with or endorsed by these companies.