
Copilot often finds several solutions to a single problem space.

GitHub Copilot is supported for use on Visual Studio Code, JetBrains variants (including Rider and IntelliJ), and Neovim.Ĭopilot can autosuggest solutions for the context you’re working in, but it can also understand natural human language in comments and function names, to synthesize a solution for your current task.Ĭopilot is trained from software documents, and public code repositories, whilst also utilising your own code to improve its suggestions, in line with your coding style supplying highly relevant suggestions based on what you are currently working on.Ĭycle through options for more than one solution. Copilot is a new software tool in the Intelligent Code Creation (ICC) category, using powerful machine learning models from OpenAI, including GPT-3 and Codex, to develop significantly faster and more efficiently. GitHub Copilot is now in technical preview, and with our hands on it, we think it deserves a discussion of its own.

Nearly a year ago, we investigated several intelligent code creation tools, and discussed the ethical implications and investigated a few tools – and wow, a lot can change in a year!
