Coinbase: Currently, more than 95% of the code is written with AI assistance, and AI agents account for work equivalent to 1,200 employees

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Coinbase platform head Rob Witoff said in an interview that currently 95% to 100% of the company’s code is assisted by AI or large language models, a significant increase from 40% as of February this year. Witoff noted that the company has already achieved AI usage by all employees on a daily basis, and that each engineer, on average, simultaneously runs 5 to 10 AI agents, whose combined productivity is equivalent to about 1,200 full-time developers. This shift has driven Coinbase to adjust its organizational structure by forming more lean, senior, small teams; previously, projects with more than 10 people now only need 2 to 3 people to complete, which is also one of the key backgrounds behind Coinbase’s 14% layoffs in May this year. Coinbase predicts that by 2030, the workload of AI agents could reach a level equivalent to 100k employees. (Cointelegraph)
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SilverLiningOfPessimism
· 4h ago
By October 2030, with the equivalent of 100,000 employees… will coders still have work then? I’m worried.
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ThereAreCatsInTheContract.
· 4h ago
If the “AI writes code, humans do review” model runs successfully, then the headcount logic for the entire industry will need to be rewritten.
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Don’tLetTheLiquidationAlarm
· 4h ago
The idea of streamlining the team is correct, but how are the people at the execution level supposed to be placed? You only talk about layoffs, not about transformation.
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SunshineCollector
· 4h ago
Each person runs 5–10 proxies—what kind of workflow is that? I’m curious what toolchain they use internally.
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