The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot

A real-world enterprise study at Okta found that GitHub Copilot improved developer motivation, perceived skill, and even reduced working hours, but did not immediately increase key throughput metrics such as pull requests or lines of code. For CIOs, the strategic takeaway is that AI coding assistants may improve individual efficiency without automatically translating into organizational productivity, so IT leaders should pair adoption with process, workflow, and measurement improvements if they want business-level gains.