Brian Armstrong: “40% of Daily Code Produced at Coinbase is AI-created”, TOKEN Stock Drops

On Wednesday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed his goal to have 50% of the daily code for the digital currency exchange created with the help of artificial intelligence by October 2025, indicating that the platform currently runs at 40% AI-generated coding.

Today, Coinbase’s stock, TOKEN, has decreased by 0.5%, as reported by Yahoo Finance, possibly indicating a negative response from investors towards Armstrong’s statements from yesterday.

~40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated. I want to get it to >50% by October.

Of course, it must be reviewed and comprehended, and not every sector can utilize AI-generated code. However, we should leverage it responsibly as much as possible. pic.twitter.com/Nmnsdxgosp

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) September 3, 2025

Brian Armstrong Confidently Claims 40% Of Coinbase Code Is AI-Written: Aims For 50%

The Coinbase CEO made a post yesterday (September 3), stating, “~40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated. I want to increase this to >50% by October. Naturally, it requires review and comprehension, and not all areas of the business can implement AI-generated code. Nonetheless, it’s essential to use it responsibly whenever possible.”

Armstrong has been outspoken in promoting the growth of AI’s influence within the company. In a podcast last month, he confessed to dismissing programmers who resisted the incorporation of AI coding tools. He later admitted that this decision was “heavy-handed” and not well-received by some employees.

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Armstrong’s initiatives align with Coinbase’s internal objectives and demonstrate a wider trend in the sector. As reported by OpsLevel, a company that creates internal development portals, by June 2025, 94% of tech firms had staff using AI coding assistants. The main advantages of this transition are increased productivity and expedited trading market entry.

AI-assisted coding usually encompasses developers using AI for swift code generation while still debugging, reviewing, and maintaining awareness of the processes executed by the AI.

Coinbase CEO’s Perspective On AI For Coding Emerges Amid The Rising Trend Of “Vibe Coding”

Watched @karpathy‘s (fantastic) talk on “vibe coding”, and I’ve never felt more validated in my life. pic.twitter.com/FGFAslcIA7

— Martian Potato (@rad_hardened) July 6, 2025

The notion of “vibe coding” has garnered attention this year, largely due to computer scientist Andrej Karpathy, former senior AI director at Tesla and founder of Eureka Labs.

He defines vibe coding as stepping back from direct management of code and fully embracing AI-generated recommendations. This practice often involves integrating error messages without complete comprehension and allowing projects to evolve primarily outside of human understanding.

“Sometimes the LLMs can’t resolve a bug, so I just work around it or request random alterations until it disappears. It’s not terrible for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite entertaining,” Karpathy shared on X. “I’m constructing a project or web app, but it’s not really coding – I simply observe, say, execute, and copy-paste, and it generally functions.”

Google has even established a Vibe Coding Tools and Guides resource to clarify the approach. The tech giant categorizes it into two groups as follows:

“Pure” vibe coding: In its most exploratory state, a user might completely trust the AI’s outputs to function as intended. As Karpathy described it, this is similar to “forgetting that the code even exists,” making it best suited for rapid ideation or “throwaway weekend projects,” where speed is paramount.

Responsible AI-assisted development is the practical application of the concept. In this framework, AI tools serve as strong collaborators or “pair programmers.” The user guides the AI, then reviews, tests, and comprehends the code it produces, thus taking full ownership of the end product.

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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan mentioned that a quarter of the accelerator’s Winter 2025 batch depended on AI for 95% of their code. Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella disclosed that the firm now employs Artificial Intelligence to produce between 20% and 30% of the code for its software.

In the Q3 financials of 2024, Google CEO Sundar Pichai declared that AI accounts for 25% of new code at Google. These figures are unsurprising, given that many tech leaders have been asserting for almost two years that AI will eventually handle most, if not all, coding.

In January 2025, Mark Zuckerberg appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, predicting that “AI will write most software soon”, explaining to Rogan that Meta had already rolled out an AI bot acting as a mid-level software engineer.

Finally, in March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated during a podcast that he anticipated “AI will write 90% of code within six months.” The deadline for Amodei’s claims approaches at the end of September, and currently, it seems unlikely that 90% will prove accurate.

However, with firms like Google, Coinbase, and Microsoft operating at capacities between 25% and 40% for AI-generated code, it appears probable that Amodei’s 90% assertion will soon hold true.

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Currently, the TOKEN stock price shows a decline of -0.41% for the day and -2% over five days, trading at $302.2. A positive reversal across the cryptocurrency market, along with time for Brian Armstrong’s AI statements to stabilize, is likely to lead CRYPTO TOKEN back above $400, a threshold not reached since July 2025.

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