Programmers using AI tools to boost global GDP by over $1.5 trn: Study

GitHub, the programming collaboration platform, said its AI-powered coding assistant is used by more than one million developers and adopted by over 20,000 organizations. GitHub Copilot has generated over three billion accepted lines of code to make it the world’s most widely adopted AI developer tool, the company said.

Its report said that users accept nearly 30 per cent of code Copilot suggestions within the first year of use and find productivity improving later. The study is based on the analysis of 934,533 Copilot users.

There will be 45 million professional developers by 2030 and generative AI developer tools could bring in the productivity of an additional 15 million “effective developers”, said the report.