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Instacart CTO: AI now does 97% of code work, engineers focus on judgment

Instacart CTO: AI now does 97% of code work, engineers focus on judgment

At VB Transform 2026, Instacart CTO Anirban Kundu said AI agents now handle the bulk of code generation and boilerplate work, freeing engineers to focus on problems requiring judgment and exception handling. In 97% of cases, Instacart's builders no longer read code themselves.

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