Is Coinbase’s ‘Heavy-Handed’ AI-Approach Wise?
Armstrong claimed that a third of Coinbase’s code is written by AI, and he hopes this will be 50% by the end of the quarter. However, John Collison, on the podcast with Armstrong, seemed skeptical about how much companies and engineers should be relying on AI-generated code.
“It’s clear that it is very helpful to have AI helping you write code. It’s not clear how you run an AI-coded base.” – John Collison, Stripe co-founder and president
Indeed, there is no doubt that the method could be productive. According to a GitHub study of 500 US programmers, 92% said they were already using AI tools, and 70% said this gave them an edge in their work.
However, forcing AI onto employees could feel restrictive, and while AI is a great tool it hasn’t always succeeded when being implemented en masse. Take Klarna, for instance, which replaced workers with AI only to reverse this policy at a later date. Instead, the way forward seems to be introducing the technology slowly. .
