what GitHub's Copilot 'AI assistant' means for coders
- Written by Ben Swift, Educational Experiences team lead (Senior Lecturer), ANU School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
ShutterstockI love writing code to make things: apps, websites, charts, even music. It’s a skill I’ve worked hard at for more than 20 years.
So I must confess last week’s news about the release of a new “AI assistant” coding helper called GitHub Copilot gave me complicated feelings.
Copilot, which spits out code to...





