You might think AI is coming for developers’ jobs—after all, AWS CEO Matt Garman predicted most developers won’t be coding within two years, and former Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque gives programmers just five years.
But GitHub’s latest data tells a strikingly different story.
According to a recent report, developer activity hit unprecedented levels in 2024. Total projects on GitHub grew 25% year-over-year to 518 million, while contributions reached 5.2 billion.
More than one million open-source maintainers, students, and teachers now use GitHub Copilot at no cost.
“Our data also shows a lot more people are joining the global developer community,” Github’s report reads. “In the past year, more developers joined GitHub and engaged with open-source and public projects (in some cases, empowered by AI),”
The advent of AI is accelerating, not replacing, development, at least not right now.
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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
