GitHub Copilot
Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.
Fig. 1GitHub Copilot's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
GitHub Copilot%
Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.
Job ads naming it, by week
Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names GitHub Copilot. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.
- 10 Aug 4
- 17 Aug 3
- 24 Aug 2
- 31 Aug 4
- 7 Sept 4
- 14 Sept 4
- 21 Sept 6
- 28 Sept 5
- 5 Oct 31
- 12 Oct 14
- 19 Oct 5
- 26 Oct 4
Biggest stories, last 90 days
- AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira423 pts · 156 comments · 17 Aug
- What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy191 pts · 30 comments · 11 Aug
- Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot154 pts · 147 comments · 25 Sept
- Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops116 pts · 109 comments · 28 Sept
- Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops49 pts · 22 comments · 28 Sept
- Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K46 pts · 63 comments · 20 Sept
- 100 days later: Microsoft still steers Windows and Copilot users to Edge27 pts · 4 comments · 8 Oct
- Microsoft removes the COPILOT function from Excel10 pts · 2 comments · 15 Sept
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