About whether GitHub Copilot's code suggestions will meaningfully change programming work.
Has this happened?
Yes 72 (63%)Not sure 25 (22%)No 18 (16%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether GitHub Copilot's code suggestions will meaningfully change programming work.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Writing code is by far the easiest part of my job. I certainly welcome any tools that will increase my productivity in that domain, but until an AI can figure out how to fix obscure, intermittent, and/or silent bugs that occur somewhere in a series of daisy-chained pipelines running on a stack of a half-dozen services/applications, I am not going to get too worked up about it.