Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer

GitHub has launched a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer designed to enhance coding efficiency by suggesting lines or entire functions based on the code context. Developed with OpenAI, it uses the OpenAI Codex, a powerful AI system trained on an extensive dataset of public source code, making it more adept at code generation compared to GPT-3. GitHub Copilot assists developers in discovering alternative solutions, writing tests, and exploring new APIs without extensive internet searches. It supports various programming languages and frameworks, with a particular emphasis on Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go during this preview phase, and interested users are encouraged to sign up due to limited availability.