The new CEO flex: Bragging about how much AI code your company shipped

2026-05-09 · Business Insider

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Tech CEOs aren't the only ones bragging about their company's AI output.
Earnings calls and interviews are filled with mentions of how much code is being shipped by AI.
It's an attractive topic to both investors and potential employees, an AI recruiter said.

Move over app downloads and EBITDA — the hot metric for CEOs is now AI productivity.

In interviews and on quarterly earnings calls, CEOs are flaunting stats on how much code AI agents are generating. The trend began with AI companies like Anthropic, Meta, and Google, which have been grilled about their AI investments, and has continued with other companies eager to position themselves as AI-forward.

From fintech to streaming, agentic AI adoption is the new status symbol among executives.

It's become more than a talking point to wow investors. It's also a signal to potential hires of where a company his headed in the future. Engineers want to know where they should invest their time as employees.

"Visibly AI-forward companies attract the right talent profile needed to actually become an AI-centric company," Alex King, the founder of AI talent acquisition company ExpandIQ, told Business Insider.

As AI seeps into daily work, some CEOs have said it's a tool helping their employees, while others report that their top engineers aren't coding at all anymore.

Here's how companies are bragging about their agentic AI prowess in coding.

Airbnb

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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

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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.

ChimeFintech company Chime filed to go public on Tuesday, one of several startups ready to test the IPO waters again.

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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.

Compass

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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

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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."

DoubleVerify

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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.

Fubo

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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

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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."