By Paul Krill
Editor at Large, InfoWorld |
GitHub Copilot, GitHub’s AI-driven programmer’s assistant, is set to add chat and voice capabilities, as the tool adopts OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 deep learning technology.
GitHub is calling its vision for the tool GitHub Copilot X, the company announced on March 22. The plan includes bringing Copilot to pull requests, the command line, and docs to answer questions about projects. Highlights of GitHub Copilot X include:
Also on the agenda is a feature where GitHub automatically will warn developers if they are missing sufficient testing for a pull request and then suggest potential tests. GitHub hopes to bring its new functionality to any organization’s repositories and internal documentation.
Developers can sign up for a free trial of Copilot. GitHub said Copilot is now generating 46% of developers’ code and helping developers code 55% faster. But the tool has ruffled some feathers, with the Free Software Foundation questioning the fairness of its use of third-party code.
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Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld, whose coverage focuses on application development.
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