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Updated 5th July 2023
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Director Of Engineering
50M - 250M USD, MediaFAVORABLE
“AI Integration Eases Routine Tasks But Occasionally Misaligns With Coding Standards”
Github has been our standard for hosting code, but adding Copilot to our review workflow has been a notable shift. It's great for catching the 'low-hanging fruit' like syntax slips and generating quick summaries for long pull requests, which saves me a lot of mental energy. While I appreciate the one-click fixes and the autofill features for PR descriptions, I still have to keep a close eye on it because it occasionally suggests code that doesn't align with our specific project style. It's a solid 4 star tool that has definitely sped up our development cycle.
IT MANAGER
<50M USD, BankingCRITICAL
“Facilitates code deployment and review with external integration options”
It's a good tool for code deployment and review, and it can also be integrated with other code review solutions if you don't want to use the tool's built-in one.
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GitHub is a platform where developers, businesses, and organizations collaborate to create and innovate. Offering tools for version control, CI/CD, security, and code review, GitHub helps teams build software efficiently and securely. With GitHub Copilot, developers can leverage AI to receive real-time coding assistance, streamlining their workflows and enabling them to focus on solving complex challenges. The platform supports a wide range of projects, from open source to enterprise, while integrating seamlessly into development processes to foster collaboration and security. As part of Microsoft, GitHub is committed to empowering developers and organizations to bring their ideas to life, working toward the goal of supporting 1 billion developers worldwide.
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Public
Year Founded
2008
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
2500 - 4999
Annual Revenue
1B-3B USD
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VP of Product Management
Based on many peer discussions, seemed like GitHub Co-pilot was really the only true AI product teams were using internally. Any other tools people are finding value with on internal side?Senior Vice President, Engineering
See Full DiscussionOther than GitHub Copilot, we have seen developers using Tabnine and Codeium very often with a lot of success. If you are an IntelliJ fan, do check out their custom AI available in their tools like Rover and Fleet.
ChatGPT has been a revolution and probably is as good as any other option available today. Feel free to checkout these tools though.
IT Manager
Has anyone had any success with evaluating the impact of using Generative AI tools such as GitHub's Copilot on the productivity or performance impact on developers? I see a lot of qualitative discussions about how developers say they are more productive, but how are you measuring that impact?Group Chief AI Officer & Partner
See Full DiscussionHere is a link to a study where they recruited 95 professional developers, split them randomly into two groups, and timed how long it took them to write an HTTP server in JavaScript.
Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness - The GitHub Blog
Result:
The group that used GitHub Copilot had a higher rate of completing the task (78%, compared to 70% in the group without Copilot).
The striking difference was that developers who used GitHub Copilot completed the task significantly faster–55% faster than the developers who didn’t use GitHub Copilot. Specifically, the developers using GitHub Copilot took on average 1 hour and 11 minutes to complete the task, while the developers who didn’t use GitHub Copilot took on average 2 hours and 41 minutes. These results are statistically significant (P=.0017) and the 95% confidence interval for the percentage speed gain is [21%, 89%].
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AI Integration Eases Routine Tasks But Occasionally Misaligns With Coding Standards
Github has been our standard for hosting code, but adding Copilot to our review workflow has been a notable shift. It's great for catching the 'low-hanging fruit' like syntax slips and generating quick summaries for long pull requests, which saves me a lot of mental energy. While I appreciate the one-click fixes and the autofill features for PR descriptions, I still have to keep a close eye on it because it occasionally suggests code that doesn't align with our specific project style. It's a solid 4 star tool that has definitely sped up our development cycle. - Drilling Solutions Engineer50M-1B USDEnergy and UtilitiesReview Source
Access to Specialized Industry Projects and Community Collaboration on GitHub Platform
I started using the GitHub platform when I was enrolled in a Data Analytics course, as a way to build, share and read code snippets or larger codes with the developers. Having already been involved with this platform, it helped me to use this knowledge while working in the Oil and Gas industry as a performance and optimization engineer. There is an open source platform where other drilling communities can share their specific programs for our industry. It is a great tool to use, where you can learn and access different projects that can help you in your job. - ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEER50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Github Enables Structured Version Control and Enhances Collaborative Coding Environment
My overall experience with GitHub has been very highly positive and impactful for team and individual collaboration. It provides a well structured platform for version control that makes tracking changes, maintaining codebases, repos and history. GitHub plays a huge role in contributing to various projects as a team, pull requests and code reviews are one of the greatest features in GitHub while contributing as a team encourages better code quality and collaboration. It also has built in tools like project boards and issues in repos to keep track of any issues or bugs. It also has integrations with CI/CD pipelines, cloud services and 3rd party services. Overall, it helps in testing, deployments and checks. There are also security features such as vulnerability alerts and branch protection which are significant when working on production repos. - DISTINGUISHED SOLUTIONS ENGINEER10B+ USDSoftwareReview Source
Automation and Security Stand Out Amid GitHub Actions Latency Issues
GitHub has been essential for development efforts I've worked on. It provides a robust, scalable environment for version control and has significantly improved our peer review process. While the transition to GitHub Actions required a learning curve, the automation benefits have been worth the effort. - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER1B-10B USDIT ServicesReview Source
GitHub Empowers Open-Source Collaboration with Integrated Tools for Professional Coding
GitHub is where all the stars are shining together, it’s a brilliant platform that really makes open-source coding to be something that makes things go-big, it’s a place where you can contribute to the projects you love or would like to see in the future, work on big projects from big companies, learn how to write good code, how to work like a professional from the best companies in the world
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