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AI Usage > Lines suggested (deleted)

Written by Tom Williams

Dataset: AI Usage

Entity: AI Usage Measurement

Field ID: lines_suggested_deleted

Type: Number

Description: The number of lines of code the AI assistant offered to delete, whether or not the suggestion was accepted. Compare with lines_deleted, which is what actually reached the file.

Source: App

Transformation logic: N/A

App Mapping

GitHub Copilot

loc_suggested_to_delete_sum - GitHub documents this as planned rather than implemented, so it is effectively always zero

Anthropic Claude (coming soon)

N/A

Cursor (coming soon)

totalLinesDeleted

OpenAI Platform (coming soon)

N/A

OpenAI Codex (coming soon)

N/A

Reporting Use Cases

The Lines suggested (deleted) field is the deletion counterpart of suggested additions, and is the sparsest of the four line measures.

  • Refactoring signal: Suggested deletions indicate refactoring and cleanup rather than new feature work.

  • Zero is expected for Copilot: GitHub publishes the counter but has not implemented it. Do not read a Copilot zero as a finding.

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