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Pinterest safely rolls out GitHub Copilot to all engineers, reaching 35% adoption in under 6 months
Pinterest initially prohibited LLM use pending legal and security evaluation, while engineers were eager to adopt AI-assisted development after using it on personal projects.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Engineer interest triggers evaluation
Engineers expressed interest in AI-assisted development after using it on personal projects, prompting formal evaluation.
Tools used
GitHub Copilotslack
Outcome
Pinterest unlocked AI-assisted development in less than 6 months, increased user adoption by 150% in 2 months, and reached 35% of their total developer population using Copilot regularly, with an NPS of 75 during the trial.
Results
Time savedless than 6 months
Volume150%
Grounding & classification
Source type: technical build writeup
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