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We conducted research with developers at Accenture to understand GitHub Copilot’s real-world impact in enterprise organizations.

Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.

As we look to empower developers with AI tools, we inadvertently integrate AI deeper into the way developers work. How do developers feel about that? And what are the most impactful ways to introduce more AI into workflows? We recently conducted 25 in-depth interviews with developers to understand exactly that.

In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how open source activity around AI, the cloud, and Git are changing the developer experience.

Findings show that code quality is better across the board and developers felt more confident, too.

Today at Collision Conference we unveiled breaking new research on the economic and productivity impact of generative AI–powered developer tools. The research found that the increase in developer productivity due to AI could boost global GDP by over $1.5 trillion.

We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools.

How is open source changing the world and impacting businesses? In this year’s Octoverse report, we identified three big trends to watch.

Read the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year.

When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.