GitHub Copilot Wants To Become Your Peer Programmer

GitHub Copilot Wants To Become Your Peer Programmer

GitHub first introduced its now ubiquitous Copilot back in 2021. At the time, the Microsoft-owned company described it as “a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code.” That overall mission of augmenting developers and using AI to do away with much of the day-to-day busy work hasn’t changed. But as GitHub CPO Mario Rodriguez told me during an interview on the sidelines of Google’s Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas earlier this mon…