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People that were using agentic AI for four hours or more per day have seen PR output more than double from before AI.

Christopher SansonProduct Lead, AI Developer Experience · Leader, Airbnb

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Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Airbnb: $12.2 billion revenue, FY2025

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Christopher Sanson, Product Lead, AI Developer Experience. Reports usage and productivity figures from the internal AI developer tools Sanson works on, so first-hand; Sanson is presenting the employer's results at a conference run by DX, which sells developer-productivity measurement and whose metric Sanson cites. No independent bio found.

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Christopher Sanson (Airbnb), “DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference”, DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, 2026-06-22. https://getdx.com/podcast/beyond-the-cli-agentic-ai-for-async-workloads-and-non-developers/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/airbnb-people-were-using-agentic-ai-four-hours-2026

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97% of active engineers inside of Airbnb are using Agentic AI on a weekly basis so far, 90% daily.

Christopher SansonProduct Lead, AI Developer Experience · Leader, Airbnb

Social post: DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, June 22, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Airbnb: $12.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

we haven't done any mandates inside of Airbnb. It's all been organic adoption.

Christopher SansonProduct Lead, AI Developer Experience · Leader, Airbnb

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Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Airbnb: $12.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

Inside of Airbnb, we're double this. So we're closer to 59% today. So more than half of code inside of Airbnb today is primarily authored by AI.

Christopher SansonProduct Lead, AI Developer Experience · Leader, Airbnb

Social post: DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, June 22, 2026.

  • 59% ai code share, as of 2026-06. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Airbnb: $12.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

We have like 50 users and I don't want to scare people, but the PR throughput for these folks is like 3X higher again.

Christopher SansonProduct Lead, AI Developer Experience · Leader, Airbnb

Social post: DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, June 22, 2026.

  • 3x output change, as of 2026-06-22

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Airbnb: $12.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

Our PR throughput inside of Airbnb is 65% higher than it was before we introduced agentic AI.

Christopher SansonProduct Lead, AI Developer Experience · Leader, Airbnb

Social post: DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, June 22, 2026.

  • 65% output change, agentic AI era vs before

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Airbnb: $12.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

So as of now, we have about double the amount of users of agentic AI tools as we do active developers

Christopher SansonProduct Lead, AI Developer Experience · Leader, Airbnb

Social post: DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, DX podcast page (DX sells developer-productivity measurement software) carrying a talk given at its DX Annual conference, June 22, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Airbnb: $12.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

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