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title: "Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1000 GitHub users told us they need."
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published_at: "2026-09-23"
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# Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1000 GitHub users told us they need.

## Retrieval answer

GitHub and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication report a demand signal from more than 1,000 GitHub users for more efficient software development.

GitHub and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication report a demand signal from more than 1,000 GitHub users for more efficient software development. The material points specifically to tools, measurement, and practical guidance for reducing wasted compute.

Efficiency work becomes operational only when teams can connect resource use to decisions developers already make. Measurement can expose where compute is being spent; tooling can place that information in the development path; practical guidance can translate a measurement into an action. The finding therefore matters less as a general sustainability preference than as evidence for an emerging developer-tool requirement.

The evidence is a GitHub blog summary of research, not a comparative test of products, practices, or measured savings. It does not establish which interventions reduce waste most, how representative the respondents are beyond the stated GitHub-user sample, or whether stated demand produces adoption. Watch for tools that make compute costs visible in local development, CI, and production workflows, along with published evidence that such visibility changes engineering choices.

Thesis: Developer efficiency is becoming a workflow requirement when wasted compute can be measured and acted on.

Mechanism: Tools expose compute use, measurements make it comparable, and practical guidance turns visibility into engineering action.

Why now: GitHub and Yale are reporting this demand from more than 1,000 GitHub users.

Implication: Developer-tool teams have an opportunity to embed compute visibility and actionable efficiency guidance into everyday engineering workflows.

Evidence boundary: The supplied source reports demand and does not demonstrate that any specific tool or practice delivers measured compute savings.

Watch condition: Watch for published evidence that compute-aware tools change decisions in local development, CI, or production.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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