{"id":168615,"date":"2023-07-29T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/github-ceo-says-copilot-will-write-80-of-code-sooner-than-later"},"modified":"2023-07-29T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T19:26:32","slug":"github-ceo-says-copilot-will-write-80-of-code-sooner-than-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/github-ceo-says-copilot-will-write-80-of-code-sooner-than-later","title":{"rendered":"GitHub CEO says Copilot will write 80% of code \u201csooner than later\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/github-ceo-says-copilot-will-write-80-of-code-sooner-than-later2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By simply pressing the tab key, a developer using Copilot can finish a line, generate blocks of code, or even write entire programs. According to GitHub, over 10,000 organizations, ranging from Coca-Cola to Airbnb, have signed up for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2023-02-14-github-copilot-for-business-is-now-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Copilot\u2019s enterprise version<\/a>, and more than 30,000 employees at Microsoft itself now regularly code with assistance from Copilot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>\u201cSooner than later, 80% of the code is going to be written by Copilot. And that doesn\u2019t mean the developer is going to be replaced.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recently, Freethink spoke with Thomas Dohmke, GitHub\u2019s CEO, to learn more about how Copilot promises to refashion programming as a profession, and the questions AI-powered development raises about the future of innovation itself. We also talked about why coding with Copilot is so much fun, how AI is going to change the way we learn, and whether Copilot can fix banks that are still running COBOL on mainframes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By simply pressing the tab key, a developer using Copilot can finish a line, generate blocks of code, or even write entire programs. According to GitHub, over 10,000 organizations, ranging from Coca-Cola to Airbnb, have signed up for Copilot\u2019s enterprise version, and more than 30,000 employees at Microsoft itself now regularly code with assistance from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}