GitHub Copilot, based on OpenAI's Codex, helps boost productivity

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Developers are turning to GitHub Copilot, a ChatGPT-like tool that helps them write code. One startup VP says it helped him save 10% of the time he'd spend coding.

While ChatGPT has spurred a lot of excitement around artificial intelligence, the conversational chatbot is not the only technology to come from OpenAI.

Software engineers often have to put together scaffolding, or boilerplate code software needs. Because the code is so common, Copilot can easily reproduce it. GitHub has said that in files where it's enabled, Copilot is responsible for For example, many databases have the same properties, like a timestamp that says when the data was created. Ghazanfar said he could now use Copilot to build a database with these properties. , said it's"almost creepy" when Copilot figured out exactly what code he's trying to write. Copilot gleans its knowledge from the large corpus of projects on GitHub, but it also uses the context of the project an engineer is working on to suggest tailored code.

 

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