GitHub Copilot Moves Beyond OpenAI Models To Support Claude 3.5, Gemini
(Tuesday October 29, 2024 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
from the more-the-merrier dept.)
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- News link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/10/29/2244226/github-copilot-moves-beyond-openai-models-to-support-claude-35-gemini
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GitHub Copilot will switch from using exclusively OpenAI's GPT models to a multi-model approach, [1]adding Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro . Ars Technica reports:
> First, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet will roll out to Copilot Chat's web and VS Code interfaces over the next few weeks. Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro will come a bit later. Additionally, GitHub will soon add support for a wider range of OpenAI models, including GPT o1-preview and o1-mini, which are intended to be stronger at advanced reasoning than GPT-4, which Copilot has used until now. Developers will be able to switch between the models (even mid-conversation) to tailor the model to fit their needs -- and organizations will be able to choose which models will be usable by team members.
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> The new approach makes sense for users, as certain models are better at certain languages or types of tasks. "There is no one model to rule every scenario," [2]wrote [GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke]. "It is clear the next phase of AI code generation will not only be defined by multi-model functionality, but by multi-model choice." It starts with the web-based and VS Code Copilot Chat interfaces, but it won't stop there. "From Copilot Workspace to multi-file editing to code review, security autofix, and the CLI, we will bring multi-model choice across many of GitHub Copilot's surface areas and functions soon," Dohmke wrote. There are a handful of additional changes coming to GitHub Copilot, too, including extensions, the ability to manipulate multiple files at once from a chat with VS Code, and a preview of Xcode support.
GitHub also introduced "Spark," a natural language-based app development tool that enables both non-coders and coders to create and refine applications using conversational prompts. It's currently in an early preview phase, with [3]a waitlist available for those who are interested.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/github-copilot-moves-beyond-openai-models-to-support-claude-3-5-gemini/
[2] https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/bringing-developer-choice-to-copilot/
[3] https://github.com/github_spark_waitlist_signup/join
> First, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet will roll out to Copilot Chat's web and VS Code interfaces over the next few weeks. Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro will come a bit later. Additionally, GitHub will soon add support for a wider range of OpenAI models, including GPT o1-preview and o1-mini, which are intended to be stronger at advanced reasoning than GPT-4, which Copilot has used until now. Developers will be able to switch between the models (even mid-conversation) to tailor the model to fit their needs -- and organizations will be able to choose which models will be usable by team members.
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> The new approach makes sense for users, as certain models are better at certain languages or types of tasks. "There is no one model to rule every scenario," [2]wrote [GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke]. "It is clear the next phase of AI code generation will not only be defined by multi-model functionality, but by multi-model choice." It starts with the web-based and VS Code Copilot Chat interfaces, but it won't stop there. "From Copilot Workspace to multi-file editing to code review, security autofix, and the CLI, we will bring multi-model choice across many of GitHub Copilot's surface areas and functions soon," Dohmke wrote. There are a handful of additional changes coming to GitHub Copilot, too, including extensions, the ability to manipulate multiple files at once from a chat with VS Code, and a preview of Xcode support.
GitHub also introduced "Spark," a natural language-based app development tool that enables both non-coders and coders to create and refine applications using conversational prompts. It's currently in an early preview phase, with [3]a waitlist available for those who are interested.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/github-copilot-moves-beyond-openai-models-to-support-claude-3-5-gemini/
[2] https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/bringing-developer-choice-to-copilot/
[3] https://github.com/github_spark_waitlist_signup/join
This is what I call a waste of bits. (Score:1)
by jasonw61 ( 185955 )
Who the hell fucking dreams this shit up, it gets paid for it too?
Mind-boggling.
More mind-boggling at this website posts this garbage.
Generating Code isn't Something to Brag About... (Score:1)
There's a reason senior software engineers share their commit summaries when more lines of code are deleted than are added. As I've gone through my career, now a Principal Engineer, I spend less and less time in the editor. I joke with my boss (and his boss) that the best bang for their buck is when I'm asleep, or in the shower. That's where I come up with solutions to the capital-H HARD problems.
Re: (Score:2)
When I first started coding in the 90s, almost everyone still smoked cigarettes. Turns out those little 10 minute cigarette breaks where hugely valuable because we'd all be standing behind the building , boss, me, receptionist, the jr all smoking and talking casually about the problems we where facing. And on "Smokeo" everyone was equal. The fresh-out-of-highschool junior could chime in on what the boss talking about an issue with an investor, and he'd be listened to (even if he rarely had much useful to ad