Support the use of AI coding assistants to accelerate development and modernise legacy systems
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Year 1 progress
In Year 1, AI coding assistants have been deployed at scale across engineering teams, providing a baseline capability to accelerate software development and support the modernisation of legacy systems.
GitHub Copilot has been rolled out to developers as a standard tool, while the Justice AI Unit has also begun testing and evaluating a range of coding assistants. This work has focused on understanding how different tools can best support developer productivity, code quality and modern engineering practices.
Year 2 priorities
In Year 2, we will focus on widening access to approved AI coding tools, increasing choice for engineers and integrating these capabilities more consistently into day-to-day development workflows.
Priorities also include developing basic, proportionate metrics to better evidence productivity gains and understand impact over time.
Together, this work supports the overall aim of accelerating delivery, improving the sustainability of digital services and enabling engineering teams to modernise legacy systems more efficiently and safely.
