Microsoft Introduces Copilot X
Microsoft roles out new features and a new Model for Copilot.
Created on March 22|Last edited on March 22
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Github copilot has been a very useful and successful product, which integrates directly with VScode, and adds code completion functionality without requiring a single prompt, as it uses surrounding code as context. Microsoft claims that copilot is writing 46% of code, and is making developers 55% faster. Microsoft says that despite this massive productivity gain, they want to bring even more AI assisted capabilities to all aspects of the development lifecycle, reaching beyond just code completion. Their first step towards this vision is Copilot X.
New Features and Capabilities
Microsofts says Copilot X will allow speaking to the AI assistant using natural language, instead of thorough text, which could add strong gains in terms of efficiency, and should be interesting to try out. They also claim that this new version of Copilot will have a chat feature that will be deeply embedded with the IDE, so that it will be aware of various different errors, which is something that existing products like ChatGPT currently are unable to accomplish. Copilot X will also add new features like automatic pull request descriptions, where the system creates summarizations of the work that programmers do, and essentially automates the pull request documentation process. In addition, the system will even give warnings if it believes an insufficient amount of unit tests were made, which is something that could prevent lots of bugs. On top of this, there will be new features around documentation, where the user will be able to ask direct questions about the code or documentation, and the system will use the docs as context to give more specific and accurate answers. The system is also expanding outside of Github and the IDE, as it will be compatible with the command line, where questions can be asked directly in the command line, and there will be multiple choice options for directly running a command. The system is powered by GPT-4, which Microsoft says is producing massive reasoning performance gains over GPT-3. Copilot-X is currently not released publicly, and the waitlist can be accessed here: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs.
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