Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code

A large part of Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call was dedicated to talking about how the company is using AI tools for coding, customer support, and search. Notably, the company claimed that 60% of the code its engineers produced in the quarter was written by AI — echoing comments by other Google , Microsoft , and Spotify , which have all talked about AI accelerating their programming. …