It might be nice to have sophisticated cybersecurity tools to help detect vulnerabilities, but code safety still needs to start with developers getting the basics right. This focus on the foundations ...

As mentioned in the article, I was given early beta access to the GitHub copilot AI tool. I love writing code to make things: apps, websites, charts, even music. It’s a skill I’ve worked hard at for ...

For more than two years, GitHub has been developing its own genAI platform that can not only write a majority of code for a developer, but also take on mundane IT help desk tasks. COO Kyle Daigle ...

Code pours from Feross Aboukhadijeh’s fingers. As a devotee of the open source software movement, he has written immensely popular web apps, peer-to-peer file exchanges, and more than 100 other pieces ...

AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear. Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah ...

Some software developers are now letting artificial intelligence help write their code. They’re finding that AI is just as flawed as humans. Last June, GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft that provides ...

GitHub is experimenting with a new way to let programmers create code with their voice inside Copilot. GitHub is experimenting with a new way to let programmers create code with their voice inside ...

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type. GitHub has launched a preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding ...

This article is about one of the honorees of Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech awards for 2022. Read about all the winners here. Generative AI, in which machine learning models create things like ...

The thing I find most baffling about the programming tests I've been running is that tools based on the same large language model tend to perform quite differently. Also: The best AI for coding in ...

Before we get started, here’s a glossary of key terms you’ll come across: Prompt: A prompt is a question or command given to an AI model to shape its response—whether a simple query or a specific ...