GitHub Copilot Workspace
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A GitHub Copilot Workspace is an AI-powered software development system.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be a GitHub Copilot Feature.
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- See: Autocomplete, GitHub, OpenAI, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, JetBrains, Integrated Development Environment.
References
2023
- https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace
- NOTE: It explores the challenge of starting complex tasks in unfamiliar repos, languages, or frameworks. Copilot Workspace aims to simplify making repo-wide edits with AI-generated plans and code. It's a research prototype. The system reimagines the developer's workflow by allowing task selection, expressing intent, and AI collaboration. It provides AI-generated solutions to issues, understanding both the task and the codebase's specifics. It enables editing at every step in natural language and operates across entire repos, making coherent multi-file and multi-language changes. It assists in core coding and scaffolding tasks like setting up testing frameworks or writing GitHub Actions workflows. Copilot Workspace is being tested in GitHub Next, showing practical value in early stages. It facilitates full development tasks, extracting current code behavior, proposing new behaviors, formulating and implementing plans. Users can edit every process step, and it offers a structured task-based UI. Future updates will support other entrypoints like addressing CodeQL security alerts or migrating library versions. It uses GitHub Codespaces for secure, ephemeral compute, enabling build attempts, error feedback, and live web app previews. It aims to extend to debugging, test execution, and other tasks requiring a live development environment. The system is designed for collaboration, allowing workspace sharing and structured UX for an activity log, resembling a code review with AI. Future developments include commenting and multi-player editing for an integrated developer and review loop.
2023
- (Bishop, 2023) ⇒ Todd Bishop. (2023). “GitHub previews upcoming ‘Copilot Workspace,’ catering to AI-hungry software developers." GeekWire. (Retrieved:2023-11-8])
- NOTE: GitHub Copilot Workspace, set to debut in 2024, leverages AI to assist developers from project initiation. Utilizing OpenAI’s GPT-4, it plans and implements projects based on natural language and codebase understanding. The system generates project plans for developer editing, guiding AI towards their goals. It also aids in error fixing and pull request creation for code integration.