GitHub unveils GitHub Copilot the AI powered pair programmer

GitHub has launched GitHub Copilot, the AI pair programmer can help developers in writing better code. The AI programmer understands the context of code, and suggests code lines and code functions. The hardest part in code development for beginners is unexpected problems while writing code. 

 

GitHub Copilot understands the complexities in code development and suggests alternative ways to solve problems. It modifies the traditional way of code development and adapts in accordance with the developer’s way to speed up the process of code writing.

 

GitHub Copilot is currently available as a Visual Studio Code Extension. It works on the major languages like Python, Javascript, Typescript, Ruby and Go. It understands all the other languages too and can suggest changes in the code. Developers are  in charge of AI pair programmers; they can accept or reject the suggestions. After acceptance they can manually make changes in the code. 

 

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GitHub Copilot is powered by Codex. It is different from other code assistants as it properly understands the code context. Copilot synthesizes the code, to match the actual context and makes the code most effective. Simple comments can be converted to code using Copilot. Developers need to describe the logic and the copilot can assemble code. 

 

It can auto fill the repetitive codes, thus undertaking the monotonous task to fill in the same codes over and over again. Developers can import a unit test package, Copilot can recommend tests based on code implementation. Copilot can tackle bugs. It can also renew the frameworks and it will save the browsing time of developers. 

 

Github Copilot is developed in collaboration with OpenAI. Copilot understands the intention to suggest changes in the code, it cannot write the entire code. It is best for beginners as it relieves them from the chaos of code modifications. 

 

According to VentureBeat, The concept of what is effectively an AI-powered autocomplete for code is not entirely new. Codota and Tabnine have offered something similar for a while, and the two companies actually merged back in 2019 ahead of a $12 million fundraise Codota.