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> the millions of people who successfully use Copilot and ChatGPT to write code on a daily basis

Where did you get that number from? Are you saying that roughly one in a thousand person on Earth, alive today, is using Copilot and ChatGPT to write code on a daily basis?

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Not the parent but it's not completely impossible. According to [0], there's about 25-30 million software developers in the world. If about 7-8% of them use ChatGPT and Copilot every day, it's already (two) millions.

[0] https://www.bairesdev.com/blog/how-many-software-developers-...

I guess it's early for this to matter too much for the count, but people who are not "developers" have also used ChatGPT to write code. I've read anecdotes.

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