GitHub Copilot learns new tricks [Video]

GitHub and Microsoft have taken their AI-powered programming assistant into new territories, tackling code reviews, simple web apps, Java upgrades, and Azure help and troubleshooting.

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The role of GitHub as part of Microsoft’s developer division is much more than providing Microsoft and its customers with a mix of cloud-hosted and on-premises source code version control. First GitHub branched out into offering a CI/CD platform with a build and test runner in the shape of GitHub Actions. Then it added tools to help reduce the risk of common bugs and to automate patching known security holes by managing dependencies.

These features have all built on its role as the place where we store code, using that as a lever to help developers build all types of projects, from hobbyist hacks to scientific computing. GitHub has billions of lines of code that make up the largest software projects. All that code, much of it …