American coders are most likely to use AI
US-based software developers are the world’s most prolific users of AI coding assistants, a trend that researchers believe has national economic implications.
A quartet of researchers explore American coders’ liking for helpful bots in a preprint paper that analyzed 80 million code submissions to GitHub between 2018 and 2024.
The researchers – Simone Daniotti, Johannes Wachs, Xiangnan Feng, and Frank Neffke – devised a machine learning model to analyze GitHub submissions and found an estimated 30.1 percent of US-sourced Python functions submitted to GitHub in 2024 were AI-generated.
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