- GitHub Copilot chat is now available for all businesses
- The new update allows developers to execute some of the most complex tasks with simple prompts
GitHub, the world’s largest software development collaboration platform, today announced their first step towards GitHub Copilot X to enterprise companies and organizations with a limited public beta release of GitHub Copilot Chat for all business users on Visual Studio and VS Code.
Commenting on the announcement, Mario Rodriguez, Vice President of Product, GitHub said “The new evolution will make GitHub Copilot into a context-aware conversational assistant right in the IDE, allowing developers to execute some of the most complex tasks with simple prompts. Every developer on a team will be able to build entire applications or debug vast arrays of code in a matter of minutes instead of a matter of days. As the centerpiece feature of GitHub Copilot X, the Copilot Chat will aid democratizing software development and making entire teams of developers happier and more productive”
Copilot Chat is more than a chat window and it can recognize what code a developer has typed, what error messages are shown, and it’s deeply embedded into the IDE. Copilot Chat is contextually aware of the code a developer has typed or what error messages are shown. And that context is key—unlike a general-purpose generative AI chat assistant, GitHub Copilot Chat is designed for developers and fits right into the IDE.
The key features of Copilot Chat include:
- Personalized assistance: Copilot Chat offers context-specific support to developers. So, whether the engineers are stuck on a particular code snippet or need guidance on a specific programming concept, Copilot Chat is ready to help.
- Real-time guidance: It suggests best practices, tips, and solutions tailored to specific coding challenges—all in real time.
- Fixing security issues. It can make suggestions for remediation, helping to reduce the number of vulnerabilities found during security scans.
- Code analysis: It can also break down complex concepts and explain code snippets.
- Simple troubleshooting: Copilot Chat not only identifies issues, but also offers suggestions, explanations, and alternative approaches.
As the world’s first at-scale AI pair programer, GitHub Copilot is already helping more than 20,000 companies and teams of developers with the ability to do their work in half the time. According to a research from the analyst firm Keystone.AI and Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot have the potential to increase global GDP (gross domestic product) by $1.5 trillion by 2030 by driving significant productivity gains.
As GitHub prepares to bring the entirety of GitHub Copilot X to general availability, they believe every developer could be made 10 times more productive with a single prompt command. This will allow the developers to amplify their truest self-expression and will also help a new generation of developers learn and build at the speed of thought.
