It’s no secret that AI is disrupting the technology industry. AI is shaping how development teams work and build software. These advancements in AI can enhance the productivity of developers around the world.
The addition of AI features to the developer tools that you use and love helps you collaborate, develop, test, and ship your products faster and more efficiently than ever before. GitHub Copilot is a service that provides you with an AI pair programmer that works with all of the popular programming languages.
In recent research, GitHub and Microsoft found that developers experience a significant productivity boost when they use GitHub Copilot to work on real-world projects and tasks. In fact, in the three years since its launch, developers have experienced the following benefits while using GitHub Copilot:
- 46% of new code now written by AI
- 55% faster overall developer productivity
- 74% of developers feeling more focused on satisfying work
Microsoft developed GitHub Copilot in collaboration with OpenAI. GitHub Copilot is powered by the OpenAI Codex system. OpenAI Codex has broad knowledge of how people use code and is more capable than GPT-3 in code generation. OpenAI Codex is more capable, in part, because it was trained on a dataset that included a larger concentration of public source code.
GitHub Copilot is available as an extension for VS Code, Visual Studio, Vim/Neovim, and the JetBrains suite of IDEs.
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