Summary
In this chapter, we saw how GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat can help developers understand, refactor, document, and even test their code.
We talked about how GitHub Copilot is not an intelligent AI overlord, but instead a predictive model built around patterns in text found in open-source repositories. As a result, the code it generates may not even compile and may contain security vulnerabilities, bugs, performance issues, or other undesirable effects.
We closed this chapter with a discussion of privacy and open-source licensing that organizations must care about for security and compliance purposes and how GitHub Copilot helps organizations meet those needs.
In the next chapter, we’ll explore code analysis in Visual Studio and see how code analysis can help you detect potential issues and targets for refactoring in your code.
