GitHub Copilot’s chat functionality is being updated to provide developers guidance on how to reword their prompts so that they can get better responses. Microsoft shared that user feedback on GitHub Copilot indicated that some developers struggle with creating prompts, including understanding phrasing and what context to include. “In some cases, the experience left users … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that GitHub Copilot is now integrated with Data Wrangler, an extension for VS Code for viewing, cleaning, and preparing data. By integrating GitHub Copilot capabilities into the tool, users will now be able to clean and transform data in VS Code with natural language prompts. It will also be able to provide … continue reading
GitHub is hosting its annual user conference, GitHub Universe, today and tomorrow, and has announced a number of new AI capabilities that will enable developers to build applications more quickly, securely, and efficiently. Many of the updates were across GitHub Copilot. First up, GitHub announced that users now have access to more model choices thanks … continue reading
Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, kicked off today in Seattle, WA. This year, the theme of the announcements is improving developer productivity with AI. Today’s announcements build on yesterday’s announcement of Copilot+ PCs, which is a new generation of Windows computers designed for AI. Copilot+ PCs are capable of over 40 trillion operations per … continue reading
ChatGPT, and other generative AIs, have continued to be the talk of the development community over the last several weeks. A number of things have happened with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, including a new API and more reactions stemming from interactions with Bing Search. Here is a breakdown of things you may have missed in the last … continue reading
The AI developer tool GitHub for Copilot is now being offered to every developer, team, and organization through its Business subscription. GitHub Copilot draws context from a developer’s code to suggest new lines, entire functions, tests, and complex algorithms. The new subscription tier has a more advanced OpenAI model and new capabilities to improve the … continue reading
GitHub Copilot, which is a solution that uses AI to make code suggestions to developers, is now available in Visual Studio 2022. The solution first launched as a technical preview last June, and according to GitHub, Visual Studio 2022 was the most requested IDE by the community. The solution makes suggestions to developers as they … continue reading
A few weeks ago GitHub released its Copilot solution, which uses AI to suggest code to developers. Developers can write a comment in their code and Copilot will automatically write the code it thinks is appropriate. It’s an impressive example of the power of AI, but has many developers and members of the open-source community … continue reading