# Gergely Orosz says coding drives most AI spend at tech companies

> Original title: Feels like inside most companies / tech companies, the vast majority of AI spend is coding-related (and spent by devs… in a few hedge fun...

- Source: Gergely Orosz
- Published: 2026-11-12T01:30:42.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/vn4euaggiquwgcadv9059zdeq
- Original: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2120690718528373049

## Summary

Gergely Orosz says most AI spending at tech companies goes to coding, with devs as the main spenders and some hedge funds' traders and quants also spending heavily. He asks whether this will change, or whether coding is uniquely suited to long-running AI tasks because its output can be checked programmatically.

## Post

Feels like inside most companies / tech companies, the vast majority of AI spend is coding-related (and spent by devs… in a few hedge funds, traders/quants also spend big time)

I wonder if this will change? Or is coding uniquely suited to being a long-running task thanks to all the validation loops it can do, and prove that whatever is produced is correct in ways we can programmatically test?