If you’re using one or more Microsoft products, such as Windows PC, Windows Operating System, Office 365, Azure, Visual Studio, or Edge, you will see Copilot almost everywhere.
There are two Copilots: Microsoft Copilot and Github Copilot. Microsoft Copilot is a general Copilot available through various Microsoft products, including Windows, Bing, Edge, Office 365, Teams, Power Platform, and Azure. Github Copilot is designed for programmers and developers who write and maintain software code.
What is Github Copilot?
GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps you write code faster without typing too much, improving productivity. With a faster coding assistant, you can focus more on your business logic and problem-solving. Github Copilot was developed by GitHub and OpenAI to improve software teams’ productivity. It leverages a generative AI model developed collaboratively by GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft.
Today, every sofware builder (developer, coder, programmer, tester, QA, even Leads and Architects) must use Github Copilot.
Copilot offers coding suggestions as you type: sometimes the completion of the current line, sometimes a whole new block of code. You can accept all or part of a suggestion, or you can ignore the suggestion and keep typing.
Using the chat feature, you can ask Copilot how best to solve a problem. Or you can tell Copilot to explain someone else's code. If your code has a bug, you can ask Copilot how to fix it.
GitHub Copilot has been proven to increase developer productivity and accelerate the pace of software development. In a survey, 88% were more productive when they used Github Copilot.
Job satisfaction is a key to developers’ well-being and happiness. While using Copilot, developers focused more on problem-solving than typing code and fixing bugs.
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Github Copilot was also able to increase the development performance and, hence, delivery by 55%.
GitHub Copilot is available:
- In your IDE
- In GitHub Mobile, as a chat interface
- On the command line, through the GitHub CLI
- On GitHub.com, with a subscription to Copilot Enterprise
Copilot Handbook for Students and Programmers
This content is from my book on Github Copilot: Copilot Handbook for Students and Developers