Skeptical of AI-coded software? Google uses AI for half its code, and it’s pushing for much more

• A new report claims Google views Anthropic’s latest Claude Code models as besting comparable Gemini models.
• Google is forming a new “strike team” of researchers and engineers amid a new push toward internal AI coding tool use.
• The company only uses AI for about half of its code, according to February 2026 figures, while Anthropic uses AI for nearly all of its code.

Coding platforms using specialized AI models and autonomous agents, like Claude Code, are taking off for both personal and enterprise workflows. Earlier this year, Spotify admitted that its best developers hadn’t written a single line of code in months. Google is taking the threat seriously, and plans to ramp up its internal use of AI coding tools, according to a report by The Information. As part of the effort, the report claims Google is building a “strike team” of researchers and engineers to build better AI coding models, citing three sources with knowledge of the plans.

The strike team is reportedly helmed by Sebastian Borgeaud, who is a Google DeepMind research engineer that also led pretraining for DeepMind in the past. Other notable contributors include Koray Kavukcuoglu, the chief technology officer for DeepMind, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The Information says that Google DeepMind engineers believe the latest Claude Code models from Anthropic outperform similar Gemini models, prompting the company’s latest push.