It's being used at my work a lot, but I'm guessing it's mostly used as a Google replacement or an auto-complete tool. I know very few people that will generate the majority of their code with AI.
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I'd love to see the numbers for computers with it immediately uninstalled.
Money for old rope-pilot
Maybe he’s counting every time a user copies and pastes anything in Word.
They really try and push it at work
3x increase makes sense to me.
GitHub Copilot (the original copilot) is wildly popular amongst professional software developers, and is used more and more as it gets more powerful.
I suspect most of the original paying customer base are developers and they're seeing a 3x usage, primarily amongst them, with a small bump from users of all the other copilots.