Future of work
80% of developers want efficiency tools
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- Source
- GitHub Blog
Summary
GitHub and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication surveyed 1,039 GitHub users. 80% of respondents were interested in tools for writing more energy-efficient code, and 71% were concerned about the environmental impact of AI systems such as energy and water use. GitHub's takeaway: interest is high, but a practical path to find waste and measure improvements is missing. The original post notes the opt-in sample does not represent all developers.
Why it matters for our work
As AI agents write more code, compute waste and cost are becoming issues of the work itself. The survey signals that once measurement tools and proven practices arrive, efficiency management could become routine work like code review.
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