ITWeb speaks to Thomas Dohmke about GitHub’s plans and its security strategy in light of the recently-discovered GoIssue cyber threat.
Key African countries are becoming a hotbed for software developers, with over 650 000 in South Africa alone.
This figure dwarfs oft-quoted statistics, from Google’s 2021 Africa Developer Ecosystem report, that put the figure around 120 000 professional developers. Novice developers can ask questions using Copilot and learn more about concepts and constructs as they go, said Dohmke, while more experienced developers can use the AI to assist them write code and be more efficient.
Another multi-language aspect of Copilot was announced at the recent GitHub Universe, held in the US. The new multi-model offers developers the ability to select which large language model they would like it to use, from OpenAI’s GPT4o, to its new o1-mini model, or using Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Google Gemini 1.5 Pro .
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