American coders are most likely to use AI

US-based software developers are the world's most prolific users of AI coding assistants, a trend that researchers believe has national economic implications.

A quartet of researchers explore American coders' liking for helpful bots in a preprint paper that analyzed 80 million code submissions to GitHub between 2018 and 2024.

The researchers – Simone Daniotti, Johannes Wachs, Xiangnan Feng, and Frank Neffke – devised a machine learning model to analyze GitHub submissions and found an estimated 30.1 percent of US-sourced Python functions submitted to GitHub in 2024 were AI-generated.

Germany came in next at 24.3 percent, ahead of France (23.2 percent), India (21.6 percent), Russia (15.4 percent) and China (11.7 percent).

The paper argues that once developers use AI for 30 percent of their code, quarterly commits rise by 2.4 percent.

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