GitHub Copilot Explained

GitHub Copilot is a service offering from GitHub that helps you to work on your applications in all steps of the software development lifecycle: from ideation, to understanding and writing code, to reviewing your pull requests and analyzing pipeline failures. By using what we call generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), it helps you speed up normal tasks so you can focus on what you do best: adding value to your end users.

GitHub describes Copilot as your pair-programming buddy: a tool that knows almost every coding language, framework, and well-known coding patterns. It can help you with researching both existing and new code directions, can help review your code and suggest improvements, or can complete the task that you have been working on. It intuitively understands your current code and coding style and will follow that to match it. We even think that GitHub Copilot is better than a human pair-programming buddy, as it is a tool that does not judge...