GitHub previews upcoming ‘Copilot Workspace,’ catering to AI-hungry software developers

▤ Summary

Among other features, Copilot Workspace will generate a proposed project plan that can be edited by software developers, who can then guide the AI in line with their ultimate goals. It will also help developers fix errors automatically and create pull requests to merge their code into an organization’s codebase. This tool, currently in preview, answers questions about code in an in-line chat as part of an integrated development enviroment (IDE). • A new Copilot Enterprise licensing tier, for $39/user per month, that allows for additional customization and personalization of the technology based on an organization’s codebases. About 92% of devlopers are using or experimenting with AI coding tools, the company said in its annual “State of the Octoverse” report, released in conjunction with the conference Wednesday morning.

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GitHub, Inc.

$1M to $5M