We’re considering using GitHub Copilot to speed up our dev work — have you tried it? What was your experience?
Group Engineering Manager, Self-employed
Its a bit over hyped on just how much time it will save you. Its good at auto completion and speeding up redundant tasks like adding imports and creating initial classes but you wont find it saving 50% of your time like some articles claim.Director of IT in Healthcare and Biotech, 1,001 - 5,000 employees
Did you develop any guidelines or policies around the use of GitHub Copilot?
Group Engineering Manager, Self-employed
We will eventually but in the initial pilots we ran we did not. There is obviously a high cost associated with it so we need to evaluate the question of WHO and we also need to figure out the WHAT. We still have some concerns with what all we allow copilot to consume that we are working through as a company.
CDO in Software, 10,001+ employees
We have tried it for many years. It’s great as a learning tools for junior developers but with some overseeing of an expert developer. That is why it’s a copilot and not a pilot (yet). I think it will accelerate your developers work, no doubt, just make sure people check the quality of the suggestions. It’s becoming a sensible default to use it, with caution.Content you might like
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But we decided not to use because in many cases the code suggested had problems both related to performance, quality and security.
If you could make sure your team uses it in a limited kind of powerful autocomplete but they don’t take whole chunks of code from it, it may help.
We plan to re-evaluate in a years time but our main concern is still quality and code security.