Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, speaks during Google I/O, an annual conference for software developers, in Mountain View, Calif., May 20, 2025. (Mike Kai Chen/The New York Times) As Silicon Valley companies compete to roll out powerful AI coding tools, an early measure of success is how widely those systems are being adopted inside their own ranks. And at Google, which has urged employees across the board – from software engineers to non-technical staff – to embrace AI, that push seems to have led to a major productivity leap. Over three-quarters of Google’s new code is AI-generated, according to the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. “We’ve been using AI to generate code internally at Google for a while. Today, 75 per cent of all new code at Google is now AI-generated and approved by engineers, up from 50 per cent last fall,” Pichai wrote in a blog post on Wednesday, April 22. “We’re now shifting to truly agentic workflows.…