Microsoft’s Copilot AI is making rapid progress. Here’s what its human leader thinks about it

For every 100 lines of code, 40 are being written by the AI, with total project time cut by up to 55%. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke recently told us that Copilot is now handling up to 40% of coding among programmers using the AI in the beta testing period over the past year. Copilot has already added another 5% to the 35% cited by Reid Hoffman, who is on the Microsoft board, as a signal that all firms better be prepared for AI in their world. ‘It can be logical about what may come next in a string of text, but it can’t capture the meaning of what you want to say,’ he said. After being in the market for a year, he expects more of those Copilot suggestions to be taken in the next five years, he said . . .

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