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I work for GitHub (although writing in an entirely personal capacity) and the segment in the GitHub Universe Keynote today said that 30% of Python code (written

I work for GitHub (although writing in an entirely personal capacity) and the segment in the GitHub Universe Keynote today said that 30% of Python code (written by users with copilot extension active) was written with copilot help. I don’t know about how the data was gathered, I was not involved, but the segment is 4 minutes in so you can see what the actual announcement claims here: https://youtu.be/etMvd9IKPH4 https://youtu.be/etMvd9IKPH4 I have used copilot and watched a colleague writing comments and frequently getting great go code suggestions without loads of edits. I personally am sincerely very impressed.

gregshap 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. So in other words it's the journalism that is wrong.
uberman 5y ago
So 30% of code written by users with the extension installed was written with some extension assistance? How exactly does that translate into the claim being made? Is github asserting the 100% of users have the extension installed? My guess is that some small number of trial users did their homework with it then ran to stack overflow when it did something other than what they hoped.
jstx1 5y ago
> the segment in the GitHub Universe Keynote today said that 30% of Python code (written by users with copilot extension active) was written with copilot help. The gap between this statement and what's in the OP title and text is too big. It's just false misleading bad journalism. I need to write an article titled "People who install Copilot only use it for 30% of the code".
lsaferite 5y ago
That video says: "Since we started, 30% of all code written by early adopters come from copilot suggestions." That is a far different headline than the one on this post. WTH is wrong with journalists now days? FFS.
toastal 5y ago
People writing code outside of using GitHub are likely more skeptical towards Copilot. We shouldn't forget that other, FOSS Git forges exist.

gregshap 5y ago

Thanks for sharing. So in other words it's the journalism that is wrong.

uberman 5y ago

So 30% of code written by users with the extension installed was written with some extension assistance? How exactly does that translate into the claim being made? Is github asserting the 100% of users have the extension installed? My guess is that some small number of trial users did their homework with it then ran to stack overflow when it did something other than what they hoped.

jstx1 5y ago

> the segment in the GitHub Universe Keynote today said that 30% of Python code (written by users with copilot extension active) was written with copilot help. The gap between this statement and what's in the OP title and text is too big. It's just false misleading bad journalism. I need to write an article titled "People who install Copilot only use it for 30% of the code".

lsaferite 5y ago

That video says: "Since we started, 30% of all code written by early adopters come from copilot suggestions." That is a far different headline than the one on this post. WTH is wrong with journalists now days? FFS.

toastal 5y ago

People writing code outside of using GitHub are likely more skeptical towards Copilot. We shouldn't forget that other, FOSS Git forges exist.