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DeploymentCognitive automation2026-04-13
Thirty-one of forty-five US federal agencies reported a commercial AI coding tool in the 2025 federal inventory, naming GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex and Poolside
Junior software developeroccupation page →
Event date / reported
2026-04-13 · reported 2026-04-14
Evidence stage
DeploymentAn employer has put it into production. Can move the baseline — weighted by scale and how similar the setting is.
Tasks this bears on
Writing routine code
CRUD endpoints, forms, standard integrations, tests for known patterns.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
A census under a statutory duty: 20 fixed questions put to every reporting agency, each answered Y or N with the product named and the licences given as a band. Generating code using AI is Y at 31 of 45, and the products named are ones that did not exist three years ago. A Y is the employer reporting that it has the tool, not a measurement of how much code the tool writes or how much of it is kept, and a licence band is not a count of people writing code with it. The question does not distinguish an engineer of ten years from one of ten months; this record attaches here because writing routine code — CRUD endpoints, forms, standard integrations, tests for known patterns — is what this task is, not because the inventory says anything about junior developers.
What this means
Across most of the US federal government the employer now reports having a commercial tool that generates code. For a junior developer that is the routine layer of the job: the first draft of an endpoint, a form or a test now has a machine source inside the organisations that hire.
What it does not yet show
It records that agencies have the tool, not how much code it produces, who uses it, or whether entry-level hiring changed; it says nothing about seniority.
What you can check
Open the consolidated commercial AI use-case CSV in OMB's inventory repository, find the question on generating code using AI, and count the agencies answering Y and the products they name.
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. Nor did this record change a layer: all 1 linked judgement above already rested on earlier evidence. This one adds to them.
Source
OMB — 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory, consolidated commercial off-the-shelf AI use cases (CSV, 45 agencies × 20 questions) · verified 2026-09-26 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-26 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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