# AI is writing more code in India. Fewer eyes are checking it

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Podcast: [Daybreak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514)
Published: 2026-04-22T02:12:37+00:00
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## Resource

A study gave 16 experienced developers the best AI coding tools available. They predicted they'd be 24% faster. They felt 20% faster. They were actually 19% slower — and still didn't believe it when told. That gap between belief and reality is now being deployed at enterprise scale. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and Cognizant have committed to over 50,000 AI coding licences each. Bugs per developer are up 50%. Code is reaching production without any human review. And the senior engineers who could catch the mistakes are buried too deep in the flood to look up. Is India's IT sector selling a productivity story it hasn't actually earned yet? Tune in. * With inputs from Mrunmayee Kulkarni . Read her piece here: Engineers gag as Amazon, TCS, and Cognizant ram ‘mandatory AI’ into everyday work Read the NYT article: The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload Read Luciano Nooijen's blog post: Why I stopped using AI code editors Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

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