GitHub Developer Productivity at 30 Billion Messages per Day
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The world’s largest repository — which alone features 142 million users of the six-month-old AI pair programmer Copilot — has a unique ability to impact developer experience globally. This innovation in response to internal developer feedback is part of the reason why Copilot adoption exceeded all expectations, with about 92% of GitHub users in the U.S. already using it since it was released publicly last June. If you sum that up and add an exponent, the developer experience is all that and so much more.” The GitHub research teams then publish internal blogs and, early on, their DevEx insights are involved in product-market fit discussions and in senior leadership meetings. With her team leads, she said, “I take an inventory of the number of human touch points something has.” It’s also important to measure how much time developers get to spend innovating over unique problems, which, she says, is key to retention. “If you inundate people with surveys, they stop answering so we get creative here,” she said, “And also we look at our own analytics and funnels that we operate internally.” All of these results are communicated with the rest of the organization, explaining: “This is the percentage of time you’ve spent on X.
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