Ever feel like you’re drowning in dev tools, all promising to make you a coding superhero? Yeah, me too. We’re always on the hunt for that magic bullet. So, when GitHub Copilot first landed as a tech preview back in 2021, the buzz was huge. The big idea? That it would seriously level up our productivity. And honestly, the early feedback from users was super promising, with lots of ‘wow, this helps!’ moments.
But you know how it is: whispers are great, but we needed the real scoop! We wanted to nail down exactly what impact Copilot was having. We’re talking hard numbers and real stories to understand if it truly made us more productive and even happier developers. So, we rolled up our sleeves to investigate, both by asking developers and looking at the data.
Then came the million-dollar question: what is ‘developer productivity‘ anyway? It’s not just about banging out code faster, is it? It’s a whole puzzle! That’s the first thing we had to tackle. Defining ‘productive’ was our first big challenge before we could even start measuring.