Three months ago, GitHub launched Copot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making it avaable to organizations with a Copot for Business subscription. Today, it’s taking this a step further by also opening up the Copot Chat beta to all current GitHub Copot for Individual subscribers in Visual Studio and VS Code. Copot for individual users costs $10/month and Copot Chat is a free addition to the existing subscription.
Like simar chatbots, Copot Chat lives in a sidebar of the IDE and developers can use it for multiturn conversations about coding in general, but more importantly, they can also ask about the code they are currently working on in the IDE. It’s the context, GitHub said when the chat experience first launched, that makes Copot a more useful tool than a general-purpose chat assistant would be.
“Integrated together, GitHub Copot Chat and the GitHub Copot pair programmer form a powerful AI-assistant capable of helping every developer bud at the speed of their minds in the natural language of their choice,” writes Shuyin Zhao, VP of Product Management, GitHub, in today’s announcement. “We believe this cohesion wl form the new centerpiece of the software development experience, fundamentally reducing boerplate work and designating natural language as a new universal programming language for every developer on the planet.”
GitHub notes that some of the common use cases for Copot Chat are real-time guidance to suggest best practices, tips and solutions taored to the code a developer is currently working on, help with code analysis and fixing security issues — all without having to switch away from the IDE.
In today’s announcement, Zhao notes that GitHub wants to enable “natural language as a new universal programming language” that wl democratize software development. That’s a theme we’ve heard from GitHub in recent months and something its CEO Thomas Dohmke has been talking about quite a bit. Because Dohmke is a guest at our Disrupt conference in San Francisco today, we’ll ask him about that — and more — during our onstage interview.
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