Today, 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated and approved by engineers.

— Sundar Pichai , CEO of Alphabet/Google (April 2026)

A note before I begin. I do not personally believe complete AGI is coming anytime soon . I think the gap between "impressive model" and "genuinely general intelligence" is wider than the current narrative makes it sound, and most of the loudest predictions are, in my opinion, priced for marketing rather than reality .

This post is not a prediction . It is a thought exercise — if AGI does arrive, in whatever form and on whatever timeline, this is how I think things will play out for those of us working in tech, and this is what I think the only sane response looks like.

With that caveat on the record:

For most of my career, I treated AGI the way most working engineers did — as a someday problem. A sci-fi footnote. Something to argue about over coffee, not something to plan around.

I still think complete AGI is far.…