GitHub Next
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We are a team of researchers and engineers at @GitHub who investigate the future of software development.
Joined July 2020
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All code has been letters, on a grid, since the days of the teletype machine. How can we advance the state of the art to make code itself more expressive and powerful? How can we layer more meaning onto code?
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Announcing: GitHub Copilot Labs! 🚀.A new extension for @code that will be our canvas for ML-powered developer experiences. 🧵.
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✨New in this release is "Translate this code".Select some code and translate it into other languages on the spot:
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Releasing our first public project to the world! From our team within GitHub that explores the future of development, we're excited to share:. ✨✨ Flat Data ✨✨. We asked ourselves:.How easy can we make it to work with live-updating data?. Check it out!.
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🎉 #GitHub Next is hiring! A rare opportunity to join a small but mighty team. 100% kind, thoughtful, and smart humans whose mission it is to improve software development, for all developers (and future developers!) You may know us from such efforts as Copilot and CopilotX,
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🏃: AI that helps you in your editor.🏇: AI that helps you with every part of software development. It’s exciting times for us at GitHub Next, and today we’re sharing some of our prototypes from the last few months! 🧵.
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We're always looking at codebases as a list of files, but could an alternate view enhance our understanding?. 🦤💫.What if we could auto-generate a bird's-eye-view of codebases?.💫🦤. Come read our exploration and visualize your own repositories!.
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The funniest thing about all the Devin stuff going on is that we have a Devon on our team. As you can imagine, the memes in our slack channel have been nonstop. But mostly we now just ask Devon to do everything. Amazing success rate. >99%
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Introducing "GPT-4 with Calc", a new project from GitHub Next. This is an investigation to make AI outputs more reliable, trustworthy and with better auditing and explanation.
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"Explain this code" was previously available in the Copilot Nightlies, and now makes its home in Labs:
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We just added a new feature to our flat-ui React component:. ✨ the ability to edit data like a spreadsheet✨. grab it for an easy spreadsheet interface that shows off your data. we would love to hear how you all end up using it!.
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🤐 Very soon. 🚀🤯.
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🚨A few minutes ago, we accidentally onboarded a lot more people to Copilot Workspace than we meant to 😬. We have to revert that to keep CW running as we scale up gradually. We're keeping everyone's place in line, just undoing the most recent batch of invites.
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Finding an app 🤝 Making an app. GitHub Spark Raycast Extension.
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🚀 Current status: rocket fueling on launchpad. Prepare for some 🤯.
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We're excited to launch the OCTO Speaker Series! Monthly talks about the long-view future of software, how we will build and collaborate, and the science that informs that future. @denaefordrobin kicks it off, Aug 19 at 9:30a Pacific. 👩🔬🎉. Sign up here 👉
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All of Next: sending Hugops to the one Next engineer who accidentally clicked the wrong button and feels really bad right now. Who among us has not brought down prod, let them cast the first tweet.
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📈🎨🧠 We're hosting @mmeckf, CEO of @observablehq, on the next episode of the OCTO Speaker Series! She'll be talking about data visualization and how that's changing how we think and work. 📅Tuesday, April 20th at 9:30a PT on
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🚨 This Thursday, @simonw will share how he uses git and @github as a system of record, fusing disparate data into something easily queried, understood, and shared. If you thought @alex_gaynor's election data scraping was 🤯, this will appeal.
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Where can AI have the most impact on helping developers with their work? Our latest research indicates that there are two phases that benefit most from adding intelligence to dev tools.
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If you have access to Copilot Workspace, check out the Raycast extension. It makes it easy to get started on new ideas from anywhere!
Copilot Workspace 🤝 Raycast. Take an idea from anywhere and turn it into code with Copilot Workspace. Install the extension 👉
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🚀 GitHub Next explores the future of software development… and we’re hiring across multiple roles! Come work on the team behind GitHub Copilot. 🧵.
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🚨 @pvh helms @inkandswitch, an independent lab researching tools for thought. He'll be sharing their work on local-first computing, and its implications for software development. 📅 Feb 26 at 09:30a Pacific, streaming on
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We're starting to flag in entire batches from the #GitHubBlocks waitlist! Like, a thousand at a time. Get on that waitlist if you want to be a part of the vision for an extensible GitHub! We're looking for folks who want to build custom blocks to help us make sure we nailed it.
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This started as something @mattrothenberg made during a lunch break at a Next onsite 💪🤯.
Introducing GitHub Copilot in the CLI 🎉. Elevate your command-line experience. Get instant suggestions and explanations, learn new commands, and boost your productivity. Available now for Copilot license holders. Learn more and get started today! ⬇️.
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How would it feel to have an AI expert on hand?. We’re focused on empowering developers with a tool that answers questions using maintainer-written information and tailors to their experience level and current needs. Read more and join the waitlist at
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We're so excited to share GitHub Copilot with the world — the world's first truly general-purpose AI coding assistant. Far beyond autocomplete, it feels like magic to use. Our engineers use it daily, and say that it has transformed the way they work.
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3️⃣ Flat Viewer.A web viewer with tons of useful features 📉 📊 to view data files from any GitHub repo, and how they've changed over time. Hint: get to it by adding "flat" to the start of any public GitHub repo url.
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We are very excited for these prototypes to start turning into products! Explore the GitHub blog for more about these prototypes and the path ahead:.
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Ever need a Copilot in your terminal? We've built Copilot CLI, which turns descriptions into working shell commands — and then breaks them down and explains the details! We’re letting people try it out right now — go sign up for the waitlist.
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Of course, shoutout to @simonw who keeps nonchalantly blowing our minds with patterns like git scraping. He's out there building these hugely impactful tools and using them to track his dog's foursquare checkins.
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@_LucasOe_ Sadly, that setting only enables `calt`, which enables texture healing but NOT any ligatures (I know, sorry, that's a VS Code choice). If you want all ligatures, the settings string you want is:. "editor.fontLigatures": "'ss01', 'ss02', 'ss03', 'ss04', 'ss05', 'ss06', 'ss07',.
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OCTO built a proof-of-concept Slack app for Good Day reflections. It stores your responses in your private repo. This is a really interesting pattern — private repos as a kind of convenient, personal datastore. Quantified self for developers! #science ❤️ @irina_kAl @nicolefv.
I'm thrilled to share the project I've been working on lately -- so near and dear to my ❤️ Huge thanks to @nicolefv for making it possible!.
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🎤 "Hey, GitHub!" is now "Copilot Voice." You now need to use "Copilot" as a wake word that activates voice control.
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Copilot for pull requests.We're using GPT-4 from @openai to generate suggestions for your pull request descriptions. Add your repos to the waitlist for our technical preview: .
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🚨 @FredKSchott is doing groundbreaking work to help the JavaScript ecosystem shed baggage with @snowpackjs and @skypackjs — we're excited to hear about the future of JS through his eyes!. 📅 Jan 21 at 09:30a Pacific, streaming on
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📺 Next - integration with VSCode's terminal. Copilot Voice will help you with writing shell commands and remembering various flags. It will suggest a command and explain what it does - then you can refine it or accept and run it in the built-in terminal.
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The recording of @pvh's talk on Local-first Computing is up! Part historical, part oracular, and a lot of great discussion in the Q&A. Thanks, Peter, we love your work! ❤️.
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Check out the writeup for a simple quickstart example! We used Flat Data to fetch the latest bitcoin price every five minutes. That live data lives in a .json file in a GitHub repo, ready for use!.
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🤖 Copilot Voice now includes strong conversational capabilities - you can ask it general questions, and it understands the context of your conversation and previous interactions.
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Instead of releasing a product, we smoothed the edges into a really easy workflow. This workflow includes a few different pieces:. 1️⃣ Flat Action.A GitHub Action that downloads data and keeps it updated. 2️⃣ Flat Editor.A VSCode extension that makes it easy to create Flat actions
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🛰️ User feedback is essential for us - based on your previous feedback, we've worked hard to improve Copilot Voice in some critical areas like UX around code suggestions or performance of intent detection. You can now also provide us feedback directly through our chat view.
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Looking forward to a fascinating talk + discussion with @brainwane on healthy open source communities. 🚨Tomorrow, 9:30a Pacific on .
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Calling all hybrids! The Developer Experience team at @GitHubNext prototypes the future of development. From creative tools, to collaboration, to data and Copilot — we build what we imagine! Bring your frontend chops + all your other skills to bear.
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🚨 Tomorrow at 9:30a Pacific!. @FredKSchott talking about the future of JavaScript as part of the OCTO Speaker series, streaming live on Fred is the author of @snowpackjs and the founder behind the JS package CDN, @skypackjs.
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To be clear, @devonrifkin is a very excellent human and the above tweet is us having a laugh.
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🚨 A discussion with @mmeckf (CEO @observablehq) about data visualization, with OCTO researcher @Wattenberger joining for discussion afterwards!. Tomorrow, 9:30a Pacific on
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Right now the openings are posted for the US, Canada, and the UK. Visit to find the application link for each location. We may be able to hire elsewhere, but it depends on location, and it depends on us getting approval to do so, which is not guaranteed.
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🧯Writing code is only one part of software development, just as often we debug existing code. Copilot Voice now has new interactions with a debugger, including features like adding and removing breakpoints or checking the value of variables.
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Nailed it, @fireship_dev . Our job is to make dev easier for developers. We're trying to do more than code completion or chat because you don't build skyscrapers without power tools.
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In this project, we have used GPT-4 to generate numeric calculation code relevant to question answering, then execute that code, and then use the results to write a more accurate question answer. The technical report discusses some evaluation results, related work and variations.
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👀 @idangazit is at @DataCouncilAI this week to share learnings from our work on CopilotX and other explorations! Check the Wednesday keynote panel on the future of AI, and a talk on designing products for AI on Thursday. ✨🤖✨.
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👀 Next researcher @szabta89 shares his experience building Copilot Workspace, how it keeps developers in control, and offers advice for developers who are new to using AI tools.
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@1littlecoder We already have a Devin. I mean Devon. Specifically @devonrifkin. Who happens to work on Workspace. Hang on, I'm going to need a whiteboard to diagram this out, one sec.
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I got access to Copilot Workspace. If Devin were a beer, Copilot Workspace would be more like a refined wine that people with good taste would appreciate. My first impressions are very positive—like, "Holly Molly, this is cool!" positive. Of course, I still need more time to
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@Rich_Harris It's not just you. Ask us sometime about and the arcane rituals we had to perform under a blood moon to get it to, uh, behave.
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one of the future directions shows imports & exports between files - a great way to see how files in the codebase are connected
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🗣️ It's coming up! @brainwane will be joining OCTO Speaker Series at a timely moment to talk about open source communities, and what it will take to make them healthy. 📅 See you on Tuesday, Mar 30th at 9:30a Pacific on
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We feel the impact of @GitHubCopilot on our productivity and happiness as devs, but Science™ > feelings, so @irina_kAl conducted some research to quantify that impact:.
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🚨We're holding our first office hours for #GitHubBlocks right now! Come on down to the discord and talk with the folks from next, build a block, ask us questions!
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Seriously, the dulcet tones of @reddobowen. Hypnotic. Serene. Calm productivity. Oh also it's a detailed screencast showing off CW in action. But it's okay if you just want to listen to Chris all day, too. 💖.
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Tune in now to @thursdai_pod with @altryne who is hosting Next's @idangazit to talk about all the prototypes that Next has been building lately!.
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The demo that @blackgirlbytes gave of #heygithub this morning is just the start, and it's mindblowing to use in person. Hear from Beatrice about her experience using it:.
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@antfu7 Don't sleep on the mechanical one (Krypton). It looks funky at display sizes, but it feels shockingly nice for code.
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See @szabta89 (one of the engineers behind Copilot Workspace) in three dimensions and super high-res, super low-latency, aka "in real life". Also: see CW in action and hear a little bit about how it works✨.
Would you like to learn more about Copilot Workspace and see it in action? Come join me at @CraftConf or at the Budapest AI Hub event organized by @iseeq_co 🎇.
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Speaker Series Ep. 1 recording is up! @denaefordrobin's research on how successful online communities are built is 🔥. Stay tuned for details about the upcoming Episode 2! 👀.
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Surprise! We're hiring a frontend/UX maker at Next. Come work with a team of incredibly smart and kind folks, and make the tools that everyone uses to make their own software. This one is US-only. Sorry global fam!.
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Designing AI-native tools is the challenge of the moment for many of us!. @colebemis is the design lead for Copilot Workspace. Hear him speak about the future of how developers and designers will work together to ship software.
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Are you at #githubuniverse? Come by the GitHub Next desk in the expo hall to talk with us about #heygithub and peek all the demos we're sharing today! 👀👀👀.
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@EliteMasterEric It's theoretical for now because there's never been a set of fonts like this before! Can't have airports before inventing the airplane, etc etc. We're talking with the VS Code team to make it happen!.
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