Software developers are often the first to integrate new tools into their everyday work. According to surveys, despite concerns about security and copyright issues, most programmers already use AI coding assistants like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot in their work.
“There has been no change in software development for a long time,” says Mario Rodriguez. As Chief Product Officer, he is jointly responsible for the AI strategy of the coding platform GitHub. “We still program in text files in sequential programming languages.” He says that GitHub now wants to change this status quo. The company sees a future in which software development will work without coding.
- “Copilot is a co-pilot,” emphasizes visitors to GitHub Universe: software development in the near future will still require a human pilot.
- We were in San Francisco and asked how AI coding assistants are really changing productivity in companies.
- It turns out that the metrics to measure Copilot & Company’s success are subjective.
To get a sense of these future promises for ourselves, heise online flew to the GitHub Developer Conference in San Francisco. At GitHub Universe, we talked not only to the GitHub team, but also to IT managers at major customers who already make GitHub Copilot available to thousands of developers – and expect even more productivity from it.
This was an excerpt from our Heise Plus article “AI in Software Development: A Look at a Future Without Program Code.” With a Heise Plus subscription you can read and listen to the full article.
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