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Sea Change in Software Development: Economic and Productivity Analysis of the AI-Powered Developer Lifecycle research paper by GitHub, 2023

GitHub · Jun 26, 2023 · Foundation models 3 years ago

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Across nearly a million Copilot users, developers accepted about 30% of suggested code, with the highest acceptance among less experienced developers.

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Thomas Dohmke, Marco Iansiti, Greg Richards
arXiv
2306.15033 · PDF
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