Mann: GitHub Copilot saves developers about 40 percent time on new code
Gideon Mann · A Conversation on The State of AI | Melanie Kambadur, Meta & Gideon Mann, Bloomberg · Feb 2, 2023 · at 12:55
Gideon Mann, Head of Machine Learning at Bloomberg, references research on productivity gains achieved by developers using GitHub Copilot.
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“They've done some studies, and it's, they, studies suggest that it saves about 40% for new code for developers to write new code.”
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