Earlierthisyear,GitHubannouncedCopilotX,aninitiativetoextenditsCopilotcodecompletiontooltomoreusecases,includingaChatGPT-basedcode-centricchatbot.Untilnow,thischatbotwasonlyavailableinaprivatepreview,butstartingtoday,CopilotChatisnowavailableasalimitedpublicbetaforallGitHubbusinessusersonVisualStudioandVSCode.
“ThisnewevolutionturnsGitHubCopilotintoacontext-awareconversationalassistantrightintheIDE,allowingdeveloperstoexecutesomeofthemostcomplextaskswithsimpleprompts,”GitHub’sMarioRodriguezwritesintoday’sannouncement.“Everydeveloperonyourteam,fromtheleasttothemostexperienced,willbeabletobuildentireapplicationsordebugvastarraysofcodeinamatterofminutesinsteadofamatterofdays.”
ImageCredits:GitHub
ThepromiseofCopilotChatisthatitisn’tjustachatbotbutalsoawareoftheentirecontextofthecodeyouareworkingon.CopilotChatmaybepoweredbyGPT-4,butGitHubstressesthatitsabilitytounderstandthecontextofwhatyouareworkingoninyourIDEmeansitcangobeyondwhatamoregeneral-purposegenerativeAIchatassistantcando—allwhileallowingdeveloperstostayintheflow.“We’retakingwhatworksforgeneralpurposeandmakingitcontextuallyawareofadeveloper'senvironment,”Rodriguezexplains.
Inadditiontospecificcodingquestionsandhelpingdevelopersfixerrorsandbugs,CopilotChatcanalsohelpdevelopersfixsecurityissuesandprovidecodeanalysis(forthosetimeswhenacolleague“forgot”toaddcommentstotheircode).
CoPilotChatwritingunittestsusingtheJestframework.ImageCredits:GitHub
AsGitHubCEOThomasDohmketoldmelastmonth,whileChatwasstillinprivatepreview,thecompanywasseeingstrongdemandfrombusinessestogetaccesstothisnewservice.“IfI comparethisto whenwelaunchedCopilotinpreview twoyearsago,weareonamuchfastertrackwhere companiesaresaying‘wewantnotonlyCopilotbutCopilotX.’Weareactuallysurprisedbytheadoption curvefromcompanieswhoareevenwillingto signupforthepreviewterms—whichare softerthanthe regulartermsandsaying‘no,wedon’twanttowaitafew months.WewantChatnow.’”
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