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Vint Cerf Says 75% of Google's Generated Software Is AI-Assisted

June 23, 2026 at 19:53 EDT

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Vint Cerf, known as one of the fathers of the internet, contributed an essay to UK IT outlet Computer Weekly's 60th anniversary feature, reflecting on the evolution of computing since the 1960s, the rise of AI, and the future of quantum networking. The article, "CW@60: On longevity – a career spanning 60 years of modern computing," was published on June 22, 2026, with Cerf surveying six decades in essay form.

60 Years of Computing · Vint Cerf

An Internet Architect's Roadmap: From LLM-Built Code to a Solar System Internet

Co-designer of TCP/IP Vint Cerf marks six decades of modern computing — revealing that 75% of the software Google now generates is developed with the aid of large language models, while charting quantum networking, deep-space comms and an agentic web.

Software at Google, by how it's built

25%

Without LLM aid

75%

Developed with LLM support

75%

of Google-generated software now built with the help of LLMs

"Jagged" performance

LLMs beat humans on some tasks, fail others — true productivity gains stay contested

Four signals for the next decades

AI & Software

75% of Google code developed with LLM aid

Quantum Networking

Linking quantum computers via photon entanglement to pool qubits

Space Comms

Solar System Internet via the DTN Bundle Protocol

Next-Gen Web

An agentic web where AI agents act autonomously

One sweep across 60 years of modern computing

Mainframes & time-sharing → ARPANET → World Wide Web (1991) → Smartphones & social → AI & Quantum

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