Cressy from the temple of Wafei
Quantum Position | 公众号 QbitAI
微软的“GitHub版Devin”——Copilot WorkSpace，终于上线了！
WorkSpace is a new "Copilot native" development environment that allows all developers to turn their ideas into applications using natural language.
In other words, as long as you have an idea and can type, you can engage in software development.
WorkSpace's all-natural language workflow has also earned it the title of "GitHub Devin" awarded by netizens.
GitHub CEO Domke said that WorkSpace has gone beyond Copilot's original capabilities and will redefine the developer experience.
Microsoft CEO Nadella also mentioned the word "redefine" again, emphasizing that Copilot WorkSpace is "a redefinition of IDE".
那么，Copilot WorkSpace都能做些什么呢？
Complete software development in natural language
According to reports, Copilot WorkSpace uses GPT-4 Turbo to allow developers to start from the idea and rely on natural language to complete the entire development process.
Specifically, developers can start with their own ideas, or they can aim to solve issues in GitHub. For example, if you want to solve an issue, there is a button on the page that allows you to start WorkSpace with one click.
As the saying goes, "everything is hard at the beginning", and what is more complicated than writing code is the design idea of building a program.
However, Workspace combines the analysis of the codebase and problem responses to generate a detailed step-by-step plan for solving the problem.
It will design in the form of a list of all the steps needed to write a program and test the code in natural language.
Of course, once you have a development plan, you don't have to do the code writing yourself, and you also leave it to Copilot.
And everything that Workspace proposes is fully editable, from plans to code, and you can just start working on what you don't like until you meet the requirements.
After the code is complete, you can run the test directly in Workspace and dynamically view the effect of the code in real time.
In addition, Copilot WorkSpace is mobile-ready and can be used in a mobile browser without having to download an app.
GitHub says that since inspiration can happen anytime, anywhere, providing multi-terminal support is the key to creating a good development environment.
Seeing Copilot WorkSpace, another group of programmers began to worry about losing their jobs......
GitHub: Replacing programmers is not the goal
A netizen who claims to be a full-stack developer joked that this is my last chance to get a job......
However, GitHub officials also stood up and said that the purpose of Copilot WorkSpace is not to replace programmers, on the contrary, to help programmers turn their ideas into reality faster.
GitHub's statement may just be a placebo, but netizens on YC are using another way to tell people that they really don't have to worry......
Some netizens said that they had built similar products with open source models.
After about three months of using it, he found that designing prompts for large models was more cumbersome than writing code himself, and eventually he returned to the traditional development method.
On the other hand, people who have used AI programming also say that it is indeed okay to write simple programs, but it is still up to people to carry out large-scale development end-to-end.
Some people even chimed in on this that GitHub's approach is a mistake in the skill tree, and that the features that should be focused on are small-scale fragment modifications.
However, whether WorkSpace performs well or not, and what the experience is, may only be known after trying it.
Currently, Copilot WorkSpace is still in beta and requires registration and waiting in line to qualify for the test.
As for whether there will be a fee after that, GitHub did not disclose it this time.
According to statistics, Copilot has 1.8 million paying individual customers and 50,000 enterprise customers.
However, according to the Wall Street Journal, GitHub is not profitable in the Copilot business, and even loses an average of $20 per person per month, and even reaches $80 per month.
Reference Links:
[1]https://github.blog/2024-04-29-github-copilot-workspace/
[2]https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1784982781338210563
[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200081
— END —
量子位 QbitAI 头条号签约
Follow us and be the first to know about cutting-edge technology trends