What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand

GitHub on Tuesday made Copilot Enterprise generally available, hoping to sell corporate developers on automated coding assistance. GitHub Copilot, a generative software autocomplete and suggestion service built on OpenAI technology, saw commercial release in June 2022 as a $10 per month subscription. The next tier up, Copilot …

[Howard Sway]

it's claimed that 88 percent of the code suggested by Copilot was retained

Well, if Accenture are now making their developers use that much Copilot generated code, it will be an awful lot cheaper to pay $39 a month and generate it yourself rather than paying Accenture for it.

Rather than making them look cutting edge, it makes them look like a suddenly unnecessary and expensive middleman.

[ecofeco]

We are so screwed

Obvious disaster in 3,2,1...

Pimp My Code!

[ChrisElvidge]

Fighting claims that it cribbed code from humans.

Surely, to make the claim go away, all they have to do is reveal from where they got their training data.

[druck]

Re: Fighting claims that it cribbed code from humans.

No what they are doing is stealing other peoples code and using their vast profits in to bullying the owners to giving up their rights when faced with an army of layers and an indefinite appeals process.

[Anonymous Coward]

I used MS Office Copilot...

and for someone who knows how to use their computer, it's useless. But our company's pilot run of it (their pun, not mine) showed a lot of folks enjoyed it and it boosted their productivity. Because they:

1. Don't know how to create simple Excel formulas or conditional formats

2. Can't be bothered to read their emails, they need a summary instead

3. Can't be bothered to read their IMs, they need a summary instead

4. Don't know how to create a simple PowerPoint presentation

In using it for code, it seems likely to dramatically decrease code quality. After all, Copilot doesn't understand code, much less the security implications in writing it. It just knows that when x follows y, then usually what's next is z. If the training data contains, for instance, an out of bounds read (and given the reported size of the training set, there are probably many examples), then YOUR code now does too. Are you skilled enough to spot and fix it, or just say "computer says so"?

[FrankenBeans]

Re: I used MS Office Copilot...

I paid the 10 bucks to have a quick reference.

It actually slowed my work.

I just use ChatGPT and Claude to get my assistance when needed

Copilot is just too intrusive.