GEM outputs 30,000 lines of code monthly, up tenfold, Bank says
Matt Bank · AI in the Investment Office – Abby Barlow, Laura Hill, Brian Sugrue, Jenny Heller, John Lawrence, Matt Bank, Kristin Kallergis Rowland, Jon Webster (EP.515) · Sep 14, 2026 · at 44:56
Matt Bank, CIO of $14 billion OCIO Global Endowment Management (GEM), details the development velocity achieved by GEM's internal three-person engineering team using LLM coding tools.
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“Our team generates about 30,000 lines of code per month. I'm told that's a lot. I don't know for a firm of our size, but it's up 10 X from where that was last year.”
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