B
Evidence Grade B
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30%
30% -- share of code written by ai for GitHub Copilot (2026)
GitHub Copilot and similar tools write 30% to 40% of code in many organizations.
- Applies to GitHub Copilot and similar tools combined
- Applies specifically to 'many organizations', not all software development globally
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Value
30%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
alexbobes.com
Primary
Tier C
https://alexbobes.com/tech/the-origins-of-chatgpt-and-nlp/ ↗
Source Article
From Turing to ChatGPT: 75 Years of NLP History Explained
Original Research
alexbobes.com
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Range 30-40%, midpoint used; no named source
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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GitHub Copilot: 30% share of code written by ai. Source: alexbobes.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/copilot-30-40-percent-code
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