Most teams measure GitHub Copilot 's value the wrong way. They count accepted suggestions, track lines generated, and call it a productivity win. The SPACE Framework forces a better question. SPACE stands for Satisfaction and well-being, Performance, Activity, Communication and collaboration, and Efficiency. It was developed by researchers at GitHub , Microsoft Research , and the University of Victoria specifically to address the problem that developer productivity is multidimensional. You can read the original paper in ACM Queue . Activity metrics (code commits, PRs merged, suggestions accepted) are easy to collect and easy to misread. We put together a video walking through what the framework reveals when applied to GitHub Copilot adoption data: What SPACE surfaces that raw activity metrics miss The Activity dimension is where most Copilot ROI reports stop. Suggestions accepted per day goes up. PR velocity goes up. This reads as a win.…