SwedenManufacturing2023 – ongoingEpiroc
Language-model coding assistant for software developers
Epiroc said developers accepted about 30% of its coding copilot's suggestions
Problem
Epiroc wanted to make software development more productive, including writing code and understanding existing code.
Approach
Epiroc introduced a coding copilot in spring 2023. Its automation-platform manager described a language model that suggested code and explained existing code, with support for C++ and Python. Roughly three quarters of its software developers used the tool.
Results
Takeaway
Suggestion acceptance provided a measure of actual use. It did not quantify the change in development time.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- IT and R&D
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
The university reported Epiroc manager Ola Pettersson's account of the coding assistant introduced that spring. He said roughly three quarters of developers used it and approximately 30% of suggestions were accepted.
Full details are in the original sources.
