GitHub revealed that it will be rolling out a new enterprise-grade Copilot subscription costing $39/month. Available from February, 2024, Copilot Enterprise will feature everything in the existing business plan plus a few notable extras — this includes the ability for companies to personalize Copilot Chat for their codebase and fine-tune the underlying models.
GitHub Copilot (not to be confused with “Copilot X”, the name of GitHub’s “vision” for next-gen Copilot features) is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments (IDEs) by autocompleting code. Currently available by subscription to individual developers and to businesses, the tool was first announced by GitHub on 29 June 2021, and works best for users coding in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go.
Features
When provided with a programming problem in natural language, Copilot is capable of generating solution code. It is also able to describe input code in English and translate code between programming languages.
According to its website, GitHub Copilot includes assistive features for programmers, such as the conversion of code comments to runnable code, and autocomplete for chunks of code, repetitive sections of code, and entire methods and/or functions.GitHub reports that Copilot’s autocomplete feature is accurate roughly half of the time; with some Python function header code, for example, Copilot correctly autocompleted the rest of the function body code 43% of the time on the first try and 57% of the time after ten attempts.
GitHub states that Copilot’s features allow programmers to navigate unfamiliar coding frameworks and languages by reducing the amount of time users spend reading documentation.
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