The Analytics Engineering Podcast Developer productivity on GitHub Copilot (w/ Eirini Kalliamvakou)
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Sep 8, 2024 Eirini Kalliamvakou, a senior researcher at GitHub Next, specializes in software engineer productivity and experience. In this discussion, she dives into the impactful role of GitHub Copilot on developer efficiency, revealing how its intelligent suggestions streamline coding tasks. Eirini critiques traditional productivity metrics and introduces the SPACE framework, emphasizing holistic assessment that includes developer satisfaction. She advocates for deep work sessions, showcasing their potential to boost productivity by 50%, and shares insights on future AI roles in software development.
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Developer Productivity Discussions
- Developers are open to discussing productivity if studied holistically.
- They want improvements beyond just measuring lines of code or speed.
Developer Productivity Measurement
- Developer productivity is often approached with flawed methods.
- Traditional metrics like lines of code don't reflect the reality of software development.
Measuring Developer Productivity
- Use metrics reflecting developers' reality, including both perceptual and observed data.
- Consider satisfaction, performance, activity, communication, and flow (SPACE framework).