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Other than GitHub Copilot, we have seen developers using Tabnine and Codeium very often with a lot of success. If you are an IntelliJ fan, do check out their custom AI available in their tools like Rover and Fleet.  ChatGPT has been a revolution and probably is as good as any other option available today. Feel free to checkout these tools though.

Here is a link to a study where they recruited 95 professional developers, split them randomly into two groups, and timed how long it took them to write an HTTP server in JavaScript. Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness - The GitHub Blog Result:  The group that used GitHub Copilot had a higher rate of completing the task (78%, compared to 70% in the group without Copilot). The striking difference was that developers who used GitHub Copilot completed the task significantly faster–55% faster than the developers who didn’t use GitHub Copilot. Specifically, the developers using GitHub Copilot took on average 1 hour and 11 minutes to complete the task, while the developers who didn’t use GitHub Copilot took on average 2 hours and 41 minutes. These results are statistically significant (P=.0017) and the 95% confidence interval for the percentage speed gain is [21%, 89%].