GitHub is Microsoft-owned community of developers — a software collaboration and innovation platform. It has 13.2 million developers associated with it. Indians have second highest number of generative AI projects on GitHub. It allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code. It is heartening to see the contributions of Indian developers of generative AI projects on GitHub. The US, India and Japan are the major contributors to generative AI projects.

Internationally, over 50,000 organizations are using GitHub Copilot. It has 1.8 million paid subscribers. Infosys has embraced GitHub platform. Cognizant’s 35000 developers have been trained on GitHub Copilot. There are 40000 more waiting for training. MNCs have increased their usage of GitHub.

Generative AI in the past two years have changed the developer landscape. It is a tool embedded inside the development environment.

In 2022, GitHub Copilot Chat was released. It unlocked the power of natural language in coding, debugging and testing. It allows developers to converse with their code in real time.

Copilot allows a new way of building software with natural language. It is expressly designed to deliver developer creativity. It is faster and easier. Developers can act as systems thinkers. They lower the barrier to entry to software.

Developers get started on a task. It is the most challenging aspect. It reduces the cognitive burden. Copilot workspace then serves as an AI thought partner. GitHub has made coding a lot easier.