Overview

• After acquiring enterprise licenses for GitHub Copilot and Cursor, Armstrong told engineers via Slack to onboard to AI assistants by the end of the week.
• He held a Saturday meeting for those not onboarded, saying some had valid conflicts such as travel while others were dismissed.
• Armstrong said AI now produces roughly 33% of Coinbase’s code, with a target of 50% by the end of the quarter.
• Coinbase has expanded internal training, adding monthly sessions where teams demonstrate AI use cases.
• On the Cheeky Pint podcast, Stripe’s John Collison questioned how to run an AI-coded codebase, and Armstrong acknowledged the uncertainty.