What NeetCode thinks about code generation

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Naveed Singh, the software engineer behind NeetCode, the coding-interview preparation site and YouTube channel; formerly at Amazon and Google.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what NeetCode has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 24 Jun 2026

   Our readingThe AI coding tools only recently became good enough to change the answer: after years of hating them, most of this codebase is now written by AI.

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   Their wordsYeah, so I would say over the last 6 months actually we've been cranking a lot of features out a lot of code out. Most of it has been written by AI at this point. And before that really wasn't the case. I was actually a really big AI hater for a long time

   ↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com 13th of 21 in this recording

3. 24 Jun 2026

   Our readingAI has made it cheap to build the features that were never worth building, so shipping a new feature every day can make a product worse rather than better.

   Their wordsBut in terms of like features, like a website like you can just throw features in there nowadays that nobody really cares about and you can you can do it so quickly. Like a new feature every single day, but do people actually care about that? Is that making it better? It could be making things worse.

   ↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com 14th of 21 in this recording