In July, GitHub announced the launch of a public beta of the GitHub Copilot Chat service for enterprise companies and organizations, and in September this feature was extended to individual users.
Today, GitHub announced that as part of the current GitHub Copilot subscription, GitHub Copilot Chat will be fully available to any business and individual user in December, and will also be free for educational users and maintainers of popular open source projects. Integrated into GitHub website and mobile App by default.
It is reported that GitHub Copilot Chat is mainly used to help developers write code, which can be directly integrated into the developer’s desktop IDE environment, which is not only limited to “code default supplement” and “code error correction”, but also can automatically associate the following text directly based on the above.
GitHub claims that regardless of a developer’s experience level, Copilot Chat can be used to build a complete application or debug code base in minutes, boosting developer productivity and code accuracy.
GitHub also said that in addition to helping developers with code, Copilot Chat can also start a dialogue with developers, making the interaction process with AI more detailed.
Igeekphone found that GitHub claims that using GitHub Copilot can significantly increase developer productivity. In controlled studies, developers used GitHub Copilot 55% faster. GitHub’s early research also showed that across all programming languages, an average of 46% of code is generated using GitHub Copilot, and among Java developers, the figure is as high as 61%.