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What percentage of your code should be AI-generated?

by Sahil Mohan Bansal

July 08, 2025

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July 08, 2025

What percentage of your code should be AI-generated?

We’ll come clean: That title is mostly clickbait. This isn’t an article where we tell you that 20% or 30% or even 50% of your codebase should be AI-generated. We’re writing this because it’s looking like very soon someone could be telling you that. ...