GitHub Introduces Customized AI for Organizations: GitHub Copilot Integrated Across Software Development Lifecycle
GitHub Copilot is now generally available, offering customers a customizable copilot tailored to their organization’s code and processes. Developers face challenges deciphering and solving unique issues, bugs, or vulnerabilities in their codebase, reducing productivity. Limited access to institutional knowledge hampers creativity and productivity, hindering developers from fully leveraging their skills.
“As the technology landscape continues to rapidly evolve, we are expanding capabilities of GitHub Copilot to not only understand your own internal knowledge bases, but to bring in the latest information from the internet as well.“
Thomas Dohmke, CEO at GitHub
Just by integrating generative AI into the editor, GitHub Copilot has quickly defined a new age of software development, resulting in clear gains of developer productivity and happiness. GitHub is today bringing the next frontier of developer tools with the general availability of GitHub Copilot Enterprise–a companion that places the institutional knowledge of your organization at your developers fingertips. Now, team members can ask questions about public and private code, get up to speed quickly with new codebases, build greater consistencies across engineering teams, and ensure that everyone has access to the same standards and work that’s previously been done.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise comes with three core features:
- Gain a deeper understanding of your organization’s unique codebase. Copilot Enterprise streamlines code navigation and comprehension for developers, enabling faster feature implementation, issue resolution, and code modernization. It empowers junior developers to contribute quicker, assists senior developers in handling live incidents, and aids in modernizing aging codebases by offering clear code summaries, relevant suggestions, and quick answers to queries about code behavior.
- Quickly access organizational knowledge and best practices. Copilot Enterprise integrates chat directly into GitHub.com, enabling developers to ask questions and receive answers in natural language on your codebase, and will guide them to relevant documentation or existing solutions. This can facilitate rapid iteration at scale while improving code with personalized assistance and suggestions tailored to an organization’s specific codebase and standards.
- Review pull requests faster. With generated pull request summaries, developers can spend less time drafting and more time merging. And with Copilot Enterprise’s capability to analyze pull request diffs, reviewers can quickly get up to speed with proposed changes and save time understanding the changes while spending more time providing valuable feedback.
Thomas Dohmke, CEO at GitHub, said, “As the technology landscape continues to rapidly evolve, we are expanding capabilities of GitHub Copilot to not only understand your own internal knowledge bases, but to bring in the latest information from the internet as well.”
GitHub is already hearing from engineering leaders about the benefits they’re seeing from Copilot Enterprise:
“With Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Chat provides personalized recommendations for our developers, making it easier for developers to quickly understand context. Already, our developers are accepting 24,000 lines of code every day with Copilot, enabling us to ship innovations to our customers faster,” said Mark Côté, Director of Developer Infrastructure, Shopify.
GitHub Copilot is becoming an integral part of the developer experience. Its capabilities, such as quickly understanding existing codebases, analyzing code, and accessing knowledge bases, enables developers to concentrate more on what truly counts: delivering impactful results. And not only can they be more productive, developers will be more happy and fulfilled, too.
