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Tool profile

GitHub / Microsoft · launched 21 Jun 2022

GitHub Copilot

In-editor code completion and chat assistant, deployed across millions of developer seats.

Source: GitHub / Microsoft product page · Updated 21 Jun 2022

Capabilities

What it exposes

Summary

Code completion, test generation, PR summaries and agent-mode issue fixing.

Tools are the adoption channel. A tool being commercially available is not evidence that any given employer uses it, so tool records feed the adoption component only where published evidence links them to an occupation.

Impact

Occupations with published evidence (3)

  • Software Developers62

    In a controlled experiment with 95 developers, those with access to GitHub Copilot completed a specified programming task 55.8% faster than the control group.

  • Web Developers61

    In a controlled experiment with 95 developers, those with access to GitHub Copilot completed a specified programming task 55.8% faster than the control group.

  • Computer Programmers48

    In a controlled experiment with 95 developers, those with access to GitHub Copilot completed a specified programming task 55.8% faster than the control group.

Provenance

Source

https://github.com/features/copilot · github/copilot

adoption channel