GitHub Universe 2023 opening keynote- Copilot in the Age of AI

[@alexdev404]

I'm Thomas and I'm a developer

[@michikatsutsugikuni4096]

I'm developer and I'm a Thomas

[@jeffclark9477]

I am a developer, I am not Thomas.

[@1337bitcoin]

Hi, Thomas

[@GameinTheSkin]

Thank you Thomas, Everyone is a developer

[@NaourassDerouichi]

My name is Thomas the developer, and everybody calls me, the developer.

[@kevz1532]

Every time I saw things like this makes me fell amazing that IT developers are willing to collectively develop a tool eventually replace majority of them..... and then us. Good job.

[@seekerofsense]

Two developers will soon cover the project where previously ten were working

[@NeilStudd]

And four testers where they used to only need one.

[@KaedysKor]

@@NeilStuddYa, but extend that into the future a bit further, and now we have 10 testers, and if there's an issue, and the AI can't fix it, _no one_ can, because no one understands how the code works.

[@dscsd9198]

You dumb? Ever heard of diminishing returns? Hardly a leap from gbt 3 to 4 xd

[@herpderp297]

@@NeilStudd Overall that still costs less for an employer, the only factor that could matter more is how much time it would take to get non buggy code

[@Wealthwise144]

😂😂 this presentation is the only thing developers need to know. Companies like google will be able to grow with 1% of engineers.

[@sergo10]

the crowds reaction is so ironic it feels like horses applauding for automobiles at a year 1880 science fair😅

[@francoisleroux3165]

Well put, its so fucked.lol My only hope is that its oversold as being more capable than it appears in the demo, which isn't far fetched when it comes to tech demo's.

[@SeanCallahan52]

This is like watching a Hoolie talk

[@bongshimedward7065]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sup3a]

Lol the first 15 seconds I'm already thinking this. Incredible how they got this shit right

[@KaramM]

[@philtrem]

This is gotta be the coolest intro to a keynote ever. Outstanding animation and music production!

[@TheEvilWalrusLord]

Nothing will ever top windows 95 release

[@RajSachdeva]

probably generated by AI

[@pelangos]

You must not be familiar with Webflow

[@maschinensohn]

So... we're the last generation of senior devs.

[@ShpanMan]

Well we just might be the last generation period 😄

[@ashdang23]

yes you are

[@medoc1n]

the last MAC-benders 😅

[@tom2think]

Imagine the potential keynotes for the next few years: 2024: No need to code, just tweak what AI generates. 2025: No need to tweak, simply ensure everything runs smoothly. 2026: No need to intervene, just be there to pay for the service. 2027: You... 💀 2028: ... Hearing about these changes, which frame developers' once-creative tasks as repetitive ones, I have to ponder. Today, we applaud as these tasks are automated. But what if, in a year or three, the entirety of coding - planning, design, testing, and all other tasks we believe require a human touch - becomes automated too? Will we keep applauding? Every year, we fine-tune our current models with data from interactions between human users and tasks that AI hasn’t mastered yet. Then, in a year or two, with enough data, we roll out a new model that can take over. It's as simple as drafting a PR message, sifting through issues, tweaking code, running tests, fixing bugs, and deploying-all without any human involvement. Surely, in a few years, an entrepreneur will be able to transform an idea into a fully operational app using tools like Copilot. The number of Github Copilot users won't just be in the millions; it'll hit a billion if things go as Satya Nadella envisions. And there’ll be applause all around! The writing's on the wall: we're approaching a future where software engineers, developers, and designers, as we know them today, may become obsolete. I'm not knocking the trend - as an entrepreneur, I see the benefits. But isn’t it ironic? Programmers cheer when they're told, "You don't need to do this or that anymore," not realizing that eventually, it might turn into, "We don't need you at all." And to be honest, I even used the ChatGPT to improve this comment grammatically!

[@nickkabs6815]

😂😂 Simply be forthright and admit that this comment was crafted by AI... 😅

[@damonfedorick]

these theories has been done and proven already, most of the manual labor these days have been replaced with automation. you sound like those hill billie guys from south park always saying "thEY tOoK mE JoB"

[@user-cn8nu6lq4w]

Yeah I have no idea why anyone working as a SWE is cheering for this.

[@user-cn8nu6lq4w]

@@damonfedorick A.) *What* theories, and B.) What do you do that you think it can't and won't be automated? You won't have a job soon either, genius.

[@damonfedorick]

​@@user-cn8nu6lq4w For generations, individuals manually cut logs using a traditional hand saw. However, the landscape changed when we introduced automation to the process, revolutionizing the way we approach woodcutting.

[@ShpanMan]

GitHub Workspace is the beginning of the end of software development. I love it.

[@marek19922209]

why

[@ShpanMan]

@@marek19922209 Did you not see how AI did your entire job with the push of a button? Do you really think you will still be paid to push that button in 2-3 years? 😂

[@Frorackous]

​@@marek19922209Because 90% of developers will lose their jobs.... and some people just want to watch the world burn. 🤷

[@christopherburgdorff]

Eventually. At least for a little while though it will make our lives easier. I use Copilot all the time.

[@user-cn8nu6lq4w]

ChatGPT was, but why would you love this unless you're an employer and a sociopath?

[@acodersjourney]

A heartfelt thank you for making coding accessible to everyone. Your videos are a treasure trove of valuable information!

[@_baumi_]

13:05 second hint in the first demo about llm output not being as expected and falling back to failsafe ...

[@_baumi_]

8:44 was the first time where she was too afraid to use the llm created workspace, so she switched to a precreated one

[@hikaroto2791]

İ mean thank you for highlighting it. However that doesn't diminish a bit on how great and how exciting the news are. What you say is true, however the world is not a snapshot and this iteration of the software is not sealed in stone. the system was, is, and will be, improving over time. what is true today might not be true tomorrow, and that is the key message! This is dope! is not perfect and doesn't need to be, as is a tool to speed up work, not the producer of final writen in stone, stagnant, untouchable code. And this tool is for adult, intelligent and ground in logic humans, not for brand new untrained people.

[@ovum]

We're not you.@@ChatGTA345

[@alvaroquinterosaguilera2822]

you guys are knocking it out of the park, good work! glad to be a part of the github community

[@authenticallysuperficial9874]

"I always like to say Please to the AI because you just never know" oop, you said the quiet part out loud 💀

[@TomasRamoska]

I wonder did they hired the same people to Wow and Whistle in the background from Apple events 🤔 because they sound the same 😂

[@cookiesInChocolate]

13:49 When they clapped for “substring(0, 10)” 😂

[@Rawi888]

Like Mii characters.

[@MrFredericandre]

36:00 Developers Developers Developers!

[@TheMountainBeyondTheWoods]

"In a world where developer shortage is on the rise..." Huh, really? Why the mass layoffs and impossibility of finding jobs in tech then?

[@dscsd9198]

Lol. The layoffs weren’t just developers, it was different fields too. Layoffs happened due to over hiring , not because chatgbt 3.5 was made public XD

[@TheMountainBeyondTheWoods]

@@dscsd9198 are you slow? where did I say anything about chatgpt and how does that invalidate what I said? You're just reafirming what I said, that there is no developer shortage. Oh, and lol

[@dscsd9198]

You obviously associated layoffs with programmers, to which I replied that other roles were also affected by hyper hiring, rather than what most people state, AI Chatgbt lol You dumb, go ask chatgbt how to reply to my comment XD

[@soyaleye]

Wow, Miley Cyrus not only acts and sings, she’s also a product manager at GitHub.

[@adityamwagh]

Lol glad someone else noticed this too 😂

[@AlexKovshovik]

@@adityamwaghsame LOL!

[@Smojero]

I thought i was the only one 😁

[@dragonbing]

Cool, and thank you for not increasing the price

[@user-cn8nu6lq4w]

And just like that, we don't have jobs! Marvelous! 😃

[@LeonardLangsdorf]

This is amazing. Co-pilot was already good but in combination this is a huge win for all engineers

[@footballuniverse6522]

Hope they don't make us engineers useless in 5 years lmao

[@KaedysKor]

"Huge win for engineers" by replacing the engineering with "tell the AI what to do". They're trying to turn software engineering into no more than a data entry job.

[@herpderp297]

@@footballuniverse6522 I don't see how that doesn't happen tbqh

[@c016smith52]

⁠@@KaedysKornah There will be managers that try to reduce down to those levels (as they should for any effective function), but these tools are built to accelerate the value through the full dev pipeline, and remove the drudgery of a lot of low level tool-specific voodoo we have to do today. Even after all this is perfect, you need to know what you’re trying to solve with the tools (all of em) available to you as a developer. A good contractor or artisan needs to keep an eye on maturing tools just as much as their craft. At some point focusing on the minutia and not the actual work and value is just being a hipster developer. “Look at all this stuff I setup for the perfect espresso” :) mkay but there are coffee shops too, but cool.

[@KaedysKor]

@@c016smith52 You're analogy of a coffee shop is more astute than you may realize. Another would be woodworking. We can successfully mass-produce coffee, just as we can wooden furniture, and yet any connoisseur of coffee, or woodwork, will sharply contest the suggestion that the mass-produced versions are of equivalent quality. And yet, the tradecrafts of hand woodworking, and hand-made drinks, and all sorts of handmade crafts, are largely a dying art. There's unquestionably a _quality_ advantage to that handcrafting, but the _cost savings_ of the mass-produced stuff means that by-in-large, we're stuck with the inferior, if efficiently-produced, mass produced version. I fear that's exactly where software engineering is going. To an extent, it's already been moving down that road, but the introduction of powerful AIs that can largely negate any need for carefully cultivated engineering skill is going to turn what is currently an area of high skill and at times arguably artistic talent into, well, factory mass-production lines of low-skilled labor. And the result will certainly be cost-effective, but it'll also be noticeably inferior, though it will probably remain at least _serviceable._ Yet another skilled trade sacrificed on the alter of mass production.

[@RocketLR]

12:47 Its so good that she had to abandon Copilots instructions and use the premade demo code :P Well this has been my experience with copilot since day one. Its either getting dumber or my projects get to complicated for it. Anyways, i think copilot needs to be able to track a bigger picture of the project and get better at understanding the objective from that.

[@zwatotem]

If she did a /fix on this, they'd have a massive gain in terms of public perception, as it would be apparent that they are equally as confident with their tools as their are with prepared demo code.

[@xeno._yt]

@@zwatotemor it still doesnt work and now its much worse than if they just used the demo code

[@devillspdr]

it's insane that i had better results with genie in vs code (event with gpt 3 model) than copilot chat !

[@RavenGhostwisperer]

Ze German developers ;). Early adopter here, it’s been certainly interesting. Good at easy things, deceivingly bad at complex things. But I’m all cases it prevents a writer’s block. Hell, I even enjoy writing documentation with copilot as my partner

[@CarlosAguilar-cs7ef]

i think the same as you, for giving ideas is great at complex stuff

[@Paretozen]

it makes you wonder: is writing documentation even needed in the future? If you use copilot to write documentation, then any other engineer could use copilot to write similar documentation aka to understand undocumented code.

[@JamesPickering-s2l]

Tabnine early adopter here. Co-pilot is pitched as the leading bot pair programmer. That will change very quickly once developers realise they can choose from a range of platform agnostic AI coding assistants. Subscription pricing tiers start low and then the classic corporate enterprise tiers get introduced. Once you can't code without it, you're dependent on the bot.

[@ac27934]

Satya was the most genuinely pumped that I've ever seen. Very interested to see where the company goes next.

[@willystain9870]

and just like that we lost our jobs "applauses"

[@rantler]

The coming technology is pretty exciting, and will definitely improve our lives in many ways. There is still a lot of hype that is not yet warranted, but probably will be in the long term. As others have mentioned, we need to be cautious since no technology is perfect, nor are humans and the interface is going to be rough at times. Speaking of imperfect technology, what is going on with all of the video artifacts in this recording? 😅

[@Think666_]

It's unfortunate that co-pilot was unable to complete the demo task. A good reminder that there's rarely a silver bullet.

[@IntentStore]

😂 cybertruck moment fr

[@robo-bot]

Actually the AI did it right. She replaced two lines instead of one. Still user error :D

[@IntentStore]

@@robo-bot she still maintained impressive composure while doing it 👏

[@robo-bot]

@@IntentStore yea agreed, on stage like that if anything goes wrong it's hard to improvise. but just pointing out the AI tech (which was being demo'd) was just fine

[@youneshenni5417]

This is sooo exciting. Can't wait to use this :)

[@szirsp]

12:00 This is why new software is slow. People just don't think or optimize. DO NOT SORT if you only need the minimum and/or maximum element !!! You are unnecessarily using a O(n log(n)) when you only need O(n). The problem is not that programmers will be replaced by AI, but if they don't hire good developers who know not just how things can be bone, but if they should be.

[@dehb1ue]

I was just waiting for Satya to yell “Developers, developers, developers!”

[@krox477]

One day this will totally replace programming

[@Wealthwise144]

😂 all developers here don’t want to say it but they know it in their heart. This presentation shows that companies will be able to grow with 0.1 percent of their engineers. Only very high level positions and research scientists are going to have jobs. This is inevitable

[@zzzfortezzz]

Oh man, this is Awesome!!!!!

[@parsazeinali1812]

Holysshshsh I'm so happy for jetbrains IDEs having the chat now!!!!

[@Henry_Okinawa]

Not a word about data privacy

[@patpatisserie4245]

Exactly. All your data is now belong to Microsoft

[@openroomxyz]

what about the code that can't be described in natural language any shorter than writing the whole step by step when writing the code directly is shorter to write and read, why don't we do the same for mathematics and just express all mathematics in natural language what about not writing boilerplate but abstracting it into library

[@arifulislamleeton]

Hi I'm Ariful Islam leeton im software developer and website developer and Co founder open A. I And Co Pilot GitHub

[@prasadjoshi007]

Thats Superb and Unbelievable!!😮

[@EdJanuskis]

Welcome to corporate legal and volunteered espionage.

[@1337bitcoin]

I wish I could hit thumbs up 10 times for this video. I just kept getting more and more excited

[@user-yf8zi5ds1t]

Very outstanding Information. Thanks GitHub Team

[@michaelmajek5190]

I’m Thomas and I’m a developer developing developing developers

[@mvviguilla]

I'm excited for this!

[@_whatistruth]

Increase Copilot response length in Chat, wordwrap in the code block chat gives

[@sammwangi7565]

ya'll got to admit the senior PM looks and sounds like Miley Cyrus

[@NeseHasan]

Sahi hai! maine Oman vs Uganda match pe jeeta recently, har jeet ke saath maza double ho jata hai

[@Chibi_Player]

Just AMAZING!

[@kumar_-_vlogs]

I dont believe people who oversmile!!!

[@UocLv]

Where is VIM support 😢

[@Rawi888]

Brudda ion even know how to code gud. I proper feel like a caveman being told how fire works. Well, future is bright so I guess it's exciting having all these fun tools to learn and play with.

[@fp3xi3yf7l]

السلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته 🎉❤

[@simonmeier]

A bit of a strange intro speech, and I may say that as a german speaking person...

[@cucciolo182]

15:09 github copilot chat in mobile , how CAN I GET IT ?

[@MultiMojo]

Is Copilot being updated to support GPT-4 128k context lengths within VS Code? Please don't make me use Visual Studio

[@Mankepanke]

Same, but also don't make me use VS Code. It shouldn't be torture to use a better copilot.

[@francisco444]

It has to. That model was made for improving efficiency

[@lifestyleblag]

Thank Steve.

[@realBeltalowda]

Now if only copilot can keep us out of all the meetings that keep us from actually coding.

[@bakedbeings]

It frees you up for pre-meetings, meetings, and meeting post mortems.

[@prasannagurudev6572]

Nope it can do the coding you do the meetings

[@EldonElledge]

This was truly fascinating. Wow

[@ethio-code6509]

Am convinced to get my subscription now lol

[@holotrout]

I’m Will and I’m a software developer and CEO

[@nedskyn]

Amazing speaker!

[@Apenschi]

Yes, and in order to achieve that, you are using your members code without asking for permission! Just as if it were yours!

[@ryan-heath]

Skeptical developers from around the world unite 💪 😎

[@arthurarakelyan5755]

It's concerning to witness how software engineers are destroying their profession

[@TomTom_Fr]

What about real-life work with big and complex project?

[@Wealthwise144]

What real work sir. This is not going to completely replace tech jobs. Only 1% of tech jobs are going to remain. High level research scientists and system designers and 1 software engineer to make clicks for generation and supervision. Nothing else

[@djgoldnaggets666]

Amazing transition>

[@ZazeLove]

i can't wait until this is the level of gpt 4.5, this is cool, but I like saying hey build me this function add that function and having it work without knowing any coding. this is one line at a time, I could print that out with one prompt in gpt...

[@enahmoscar-phoenix7565]

Not to be a doomer, but I couldn’t help but be reminded of that one love death and robots episode about the swarm when Satya Nadelle started talking about getting copilot in the hands of billions of people. If you missed the episode, the lesson was that when it comes to the longevity of a community/species, high individual intelligence may not be the best survival adaptation

[@justmeandmy]

Wait, CEO barfs code on team and then makes the code reviewer write the tests? Yup, C suited confirmed. Also "Explain this code" needing a billion dollar tool to deal with the fact the code is illegible? I'm getting grumpier by the minute. I really like the partner program stuff though. Will save a lot of time vs logging into dashboards of 100 tools.

[@mansoor8228]

Wiah you all the best ❤

[@thebluriam]

Primagen should be very happy about some of these features, finally.

[@user-yf8zi5ds1t]

Very outstanding information. Thanks a lot

[@ttarzan1]

GET IN DA CHOPAAAAAAAAA...

[@happyjulien6275]

thank you :

[@eltrukof]

7:43 VS code demo from blank

[@onnot701]

Cheerleading for the end of human endavour 🎉

[@swingtag1041]

Imagine if governments used GitHub to manage their legal frameworks so that they were all open source and we could see all the pull requests and all the issues. They could use natural language and all of the amazing productivity tools that software developers use to accelerate the development of systems that make society better

[@SerkanMesude]

Bhai main to process enjoy kar raha hoon, jitni bets, utni jeet, 4rabet pe betting ka maza hi alag hai

[@user-gg8we2ot4b]

Super!

[@rzkysyz]

Does it work with bitbucket? 😅

[@jessicaryan9820]

DOPE!

[@Ken0128]

What happened to the Copilot X?

[@80sixd]

EVERY TIME PINK JACKET LADY SAYS 'NOW' TAKE A DRINK

[@GustavoPinho89]

I'm glad Stan Smith has given Klaus his body back 😂😂😂

[@jazielwayne2178]

Lol built on all of github's knowledge, including private repos

[@mble]

14:30 what about NeoVim?

[@PonsianoDeLoor]

Now we can do so much in less time

[@andriespretorius5534]

Github doing AI is like Spotify creating music - it boggles me.

[@rahuldev2533]

I want to run on vim

[@askarkalykov]

I like the progress in this area and the new features, but I'm lost in all those products and brands. Why can't we just know that Copilot now can do X Y and Z, so focusing on single "agent", and not on the exploding amount of different names which i bet no 9ne will ever remember.

[@hubert7855]

Noam Chomsky turns in his grave like great accelerator

[@surgio43]

My guy sounds like doctor dufenshmurf

[@alfredgeorge4742]

this is interesting.

[@jordanjones9861]

If it doesn't learn recursively, at least you can learn what it knows about design. And what it only knows is data, LLM, and app design

[@codigonaestrada]

I am Fabio, and I'm a 38 years old Dev student. =) Let's connect.

[@tahir2443]

goddam that german accent is so cool

[@kenyup7936]

Ty for that AI , it does help the productivity as well as efficiency, ❤❤❤

[@MartinsTalbergs]

Just run that PR descriptor accross GH where needed and done (add the note it's generated). Good job

[@80sixd]

are there ten people in the audience in front of this big asss stage and do they work for github?

[@oussama-vn4tj]

I'm oussama and i'm a student

[@praneshsingh5128]

I'm Pranesh and I am a developer.

[@dbasit]

We are getting close to the end of programming.

[@peng943]

I am very very complex to hear the audience cheer for it.. most programers including myself do not possess other skills other than programing.

[@cantis]

No, we are moving past a lot of the drudgery in coding. This is nowhere near that good, and won’t read your mind.

[@lucrativelepton]

No way. Copilot can only expand on your intentions / stuff it's been trained on. Try asking copilot to do something novel without explaining every step to it, and it'll fumble it every time

[@jojomondag]

thats will change fast. The ai today is just a baby, the capabilities will increase rapidly!@@lucrativelepton

[@mathmagician97]

We are not nearing the end, we are just getting started. "Programming" will go through a transformation in the upcoming years. The AI might write all the code for you, but you still need to think like a programmer to solve problems. Programming will become as diverse as math in the coming years. We will be entering a whole new dimension of problem solving with all the tedious stuff outsourced to AI