JapanTechnology and telecom2023 – ongoingLY Corporation
GitHub Copilot for engineering teams
LY Corporation expanded Copilot after a pilot reported 10–30% gains on selected activity measures
Problem
LY Corporation sought to reduce engineers' coding workload and improve development efficiency.
Approach
Approximately 550 engineers tested GitHub Copilot for Business from June through August 2023. LY analyzed participant surveys and GitHub activity before starting rollout to approximately 7,000 engineers in October. It required training and multiple reviews of generated code.
Results
Takeaway
The activity gains applied to selected before-and-after indicators. They did not establish an equivalent increase in total engineering output.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Technology and telecom
- 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
LY reported its engineer pilot and subsequent wider rollout. Selected activity measures improved approximately 10–30%, while its combined survey and activity analysis reported daily coding-time savings of approximately 1–2 hours per engineer.
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