180M+
Developers on GitHub in 2025
Fastest absolute growth yearAI Survey Positives
Quick chart view of adoption, acceleration proxies, and positive sentiment.
2025 Highlights
Adopting AI tools (any use) 78.5%
Using AI regularly (daily or weekly) 64.8%
Using AI daily 47.1%
Positive toward AI (favorable or very favorable) 59.7%
Loving AI (very favorable) 22.9%
Learned AI tools in the last year 67.3%
2024 vs 2025
Any AI use
2024 61.8%
2025 78.5%
Favorable sentiment
Note: 2025 AISelect includes usage frequency, so adoption comparison is directional.
2024 72%
2025 59.7%
Broader AI Acceleration Signals (GitHub 2025)
36M+
New developers in 2025
Roughly 1 new developer per second80%
New developers using Copilot in week one
Early AI onboarding signal1.1M+
Public repositories using an LLM SDK
693,867 created in last 12 months (+178% YoY)43.2M
Pull requests merged per month
+23% YoY average986M
Commits in 2025
+25.1% YoYpasted_20260223-215139_EAFE4AB1.txt).
Newer Post Highlights
66%
TypeScript YoY growth
Language adoption with AI-assisted workflows24%
JavaScript YoY growth
Still growing, but slower than TypeScript206%
Shell scripting growth in AI-generated projects
Friction-heavy tooling becomes easier with AI20–30%
Typical AI-assisted throughput lift
Framed as observed team-level productivity gainpasted_20260223-215444_DD1C7E07.txt).
Enterprise Signals (State of AI 2026)
+50%
Workforce access to sanctioned AI tools (YoY)
Expanded from under 40% to under 60% of workers25%
Orgs with 40%+ of AI experiments in production today
Scale progress already visible54%
Expect 40%+ experiments in production in 3–6 months
Strong near-term scaling intent84%
Organizations increasing AI investment
Confidence and spend still rising74%
Expected moderate+ agentic AI use within 2 years
Up from 23% reporting this level today80%
Expected physical AI use within 2 years
Up from 58% at least limited use todaystate-of-ai-2026.pdf (Deloitte, January 2026; survey
n=3,235).