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We are a team of researchers and engineers at @GitHub who investigate the future of software development.

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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
6 months
All code has been letters, on a grid, since the days of the teletype machine. How can we advance the state of the art to make code itself more expressive and powerful? How can we layer more meaning onto code?
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@GitHubNext
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Announcing: GitHub Copilot Labs! 🚀 A new extension for @code that will be our canvas for ML-powered developer experiences. 🧵
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GitHub Next
2 years
✨New in this release is "Translate this code" Select some code and translate it into other languages on the spot:
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
Releasing our first public project to the world! From our team within GitHub that explores the future of development, we're excited to share: ✨✨ Flat Data ✨✨ We asked ourselves: How easy can we make it to work with live-updating data? Check it out!
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@GitHubNext
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10 months
🎉 #GitHub Next is hiring! A rare opportunity to join a small but mighty team. 100% kind, thoughtful, and smart humans whose mission it is to improve software development, for all developers (and future developers!) You may know us from such efforts as Copilot and CopilotX,
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@GitHubNext
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🏃: AI that helps you in your editor 🏇: AI that helps you with every part of software development It’s exciting times for us at GitHub Next, and today we’re sharing some of our prototypes from the last few months! 🧵
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
We're always looking at codebases as a list of files, but could an alternate view enhance our understanding? 🦤💫 What if we could auto-generate a bird's-eye-view of codebases? 💫🦤 Come read our exploration and visualize your own repositories!
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
2 months
The funniest thing about all the Devin stuff going on is that we have a Devon on our team. As you can imagine, the memes in our slack channel have been nonstop. But mostly we now just ask Devon to do everything. Amazing success rate. >99%
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1 year
Introducing "GPT-4 with Calc", a new project from GitHub Next. This is an investigation to make AI outputs more reliable, trustworthy and with better auditing and explanation.
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GitHub Next
2 years
"Explain this code" was previously available in the Copilot Nightlies, and now makes its home in Labs:
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
2 years
We just added a new feature to our flat-ui React component: ✨ the ability to edit data like a spreadsheet✨ grab it for an easy spreadsheet interface that shows off your data. we would love to hear how you all end up using it!
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
20 days
🤐 Very soon. 🚀🤯
@mariorod1
Mario Rodriguez
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Next wave …. coming soon.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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🚨A few minutes ago, we accidentally onboarded a lot more people to Copilot Workspace than we meant to 😬 We have to revert that to keep CW running as we scale up gradually. We're keeping everyone's place in line, just undoing the most recent batch of invites.
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@GitHubNext
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6 months
We have One More Thing… 🔡
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
17 days
🚀 Current status: rocket fueling on launchpad Prepare for some 🤯
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
8 months
We're huge fans of @vite_js here at Next, and we're excited for the stellar lineup of speakers at @viteconf this year! And as a bonus, you can @GitHub -ify your ticket here: Looking forward to bumping into y'all in the virtual hallway track!
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
4 years
We're excited to launch the OCTO Speaker Series! Monthly talks about the long-view future of software, how we will build and collaborate, and the science that informs that future. @denaefordrobin kicks it off, Aug 19 at 9:30a Pacific. 👩‍🔬🎉 Sign up here 👉
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All of Next: sending Hugops to the one Next engineer who accidentally clicked the wrong button and feels really bad right now. Who among us has not brought down prod, let them cast the first tweet.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
📈🎨🧠 We're hosting @mmeckf , CEO of @observablehq , on the next episode of the OCTO Speaker Series! She'll be talking about data visualization and how that's changing how we think and work. 📅Tuesday, April 20th at 9:30a PT on
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
6 months
@RobertHaisfield You can't. YET (dramatic pause)
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
4 years
🚨 This Thursday, @simonw will share how he uses git and @github as a system of record, fusing disparate data into something easily queried, understood, and shared. If you thought @alex_gaynor 's election data scraping was 🤯, this will appeal.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
4 months
Where can AI have the most impact on helping developers with their work? Our latest research indicates that there are two phases that benefit most from adding intelligence to dev tools.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
🚨 @pvh helms @inkandswitch , an independent lab researching tools for thought. He'll be sharing their work on local-first computing, and its implications for software development. 📅 Feb 26 at 09:30a Pacific, streaming on
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
🚀 GitHub Next explores the future of software development… and we’re hiring across multiple roles! Come work on the team behind GitHub Copilot. 🧵
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
10 days
If you have access to Copilot Workspace, check out the Raycast extension. It makes it easy to get started on new ideas from anywhere!
@raycastapp
Raycast
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Copilot Workspace 🤝 Raycast Take an idea from anywhere and turn it into code with Copilot Workspace. Install the extension 👉
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
1 year
We're starting to flag in entire batches from the #GitHubBlocks waitlist! Like, a thousand at a time. Get on that waitlist if you want to be a part of the vision for an extensible GitHub! We're looking for folks who want to build custom blocks to help us make sure we nailed it.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
6 months
This started as something @mattrothenberg made during a lunch break at a Next onsite 💪🤯
@github
GitHub
6 months
Introducing GitHub Copilot in the CLI 🎉 Elevate your command-line experience. Get instant suggestions and explanations, learn new commands, and boost your productivity. Available now for Copilot license holders. Learn more and get started today! ⬇️
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How would it feel to have an AI expert on hand? We’re focused on empowering developers with a tool that answers questions using maintainer-written information and tailors to their experience level and current needs. Read more and join the waitlist at
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
3️⃣ Flat Viewer A web viewer with tons of useful features 📉 📊 to view data files from any GitHub repo, and how they've changed over time Hint: get to it by adding "flat" to the start of any public GitHub repo url
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
We're so excited to share GitHub Copilot with the world — the world's first truly general-purpose AI coding assistant. Far beyond autocomplete, it feels like magic to use. Our engineers use it daily, and say that it has transformed the way they work.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
1 year
We are very excited for these prototypes to start turning into products! Explore the GitHub blog for more about these prototypes and the path ahead:
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GitHub Next
6 months
@T_Zahil We love all our children the same But yeah, Argon
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GitHub Next
1 year
Ever need a Copilot in your terminal? We've built Copilot CLI, which turns descriptions into working shell commands — and then breaks them down and explains the details! We’re letting people try it out right now — go sign up for the waitlist.
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@Parthesh28 @RobertHaisfield Working on persuading the team 🤞🤞🤞
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GitHub Next
3 years
Of course, shoutout to @simonw who keeps nonchalantly blowing our minds with patterns like git scraping. He's out there building these hugely impactful tools and using them to track his dog's foursquare checkins.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
2 years
We have more experiments brewing in the kitchen! It's hard not to get excited about supercharging developer experiences with ML, and Labs is a durable home for those experiments going forward. Some will be interesting, some might not! Only way to know is to build them.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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@_LucasOe_ Sadly, that setting only enables `calt`, which enables texture healing but NOT any ligatures (I know, sorry, that's a VS Code choice) If you want all ligatures, the settings string you want is: "editor.fontLigatures": "'ss01', 'ss02', 'ss03', 'ss04', 'ss05', 'ss06', 'ss07',
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GitHub Next
2 years
You will need to be a part of the technical preview in order to use the Copilot Labs extension. It is experimental, and might break from time to time. There are no guarantees that anything in Labs will graduate into the main product!
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
OCTO built a proof-of-concept Slack app for Good Day reflections. It stores your responses in your private repo. This is a really interesting pattern — private repos as a kind of convenient, personal datastore. Quantified self for developers! #science ❤️ @irina_kAl @nicolefv
@irina_kAl
Eirini Kalliamvakou
3 years
I'm thrilled to share the project I've been working on lately -- so near and dear to my ❤️ Huge thanks to @nicolefv for making it possible!
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
1 year
🎤 "Hey, GitHub!" is now "Copilot Voice." You now need to use "Copilot" as a wake word that activates voice control.
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GitHub Next
1 year
Copilot for pull requests We're using GPT-4 from @openai to generate suggestions for your pull request descriptions. Add your repos to the waitlist for our technical preview:
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GitHub Next
3 years
🚨 @FredKSchott is doing groundbreaking work to help the JavaScript ecosystem shed baggage with @snowpackjs and @skypackjs — we're excited to hear about the future of JS through his eyes! 📅 Jan 21 at 09:30a Pacific, streaming on
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GitHub Next
3 years
🚨 Trying something a little different next week! We'll be hosting @swyx for a discussion with @bdougieYO and @idangazit about the evolution of devrel into "Developer Community" roles 📅 Mar 18 at 9:00a Pacific, streaming on
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GitHub Next
1 year
📺 Next - integration with VSCode's terminal. Copilot Voice will help you with writing shell commands and remembering various flags. It will suggest a command and explain what it does - then you can refine it or accept and run it in the built-in terminal.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
The recording of @pvh 's talk on Local-first Computing is up! Part historical, part oracular, and a lot of great discussion in the Q&A. Thanks, Peter, we love your work! ❤️
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GitHub Next
3 years
Check out the writeup for a simple quickstart example! We used Flat Data to fetch the latest bitcoin price every five minutes. That live data lives in a .json file in a GitHub repo, ready for use!
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GitHub Next
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🤖 Copilot Voice now includes strong conversational capabilities - you can ask it general questions, and it understands the context of your conversation and previous interactions.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
Instead of releasing a product, we smoothed the edges into a really easy workflow. This workflow includes a few different pieces: 1️⃣ Flat Action A GitHub Action that downloads data and keeps it updated 2️⃣ Flat Editor A VSCode extension that makes it easy to create Flat actions
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GitHub Next
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🛰️ User feedback is essential for us - based on your previous feedback, we've worked hard to improve Copilot Voice in some critical areas like UX around code suggestions or performance of intent detection. You can now also provide us feedback directly through our chat view.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
Looking forward to a fascinating talk + discussion with @brainwane on healthy open source communities. 🚨Tomorrow, 9:30a Pacific on !
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GitHub Next
1 year
💡We're always looking for opportunities to expand our integration with the editor. Copilot Voice can access quick fixes and help you understand code diagnostics provided by your favorite language extensions.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
Calling all hybrids! The Developer Experience team at @GitHubNext prototypes the future of development. From creative tools, to collaboration, to data and Copilot — we build what we imagine! Bring your frontend chops + all your other skills to bear.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
2 months
To be clear, @devonrifkin is a very excellent human and the above tweet is us having a laugh.
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@GitHubNext
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6 months
Do you want a GitHub Next sticker? Find @idangazit at universe
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3 years
New handle, who dis?
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GitHub Next
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🚨 A discussion with @mmeckf (CEO @observablehq ) about data visualization, with OCTO researcher @Wattenberger joining for discussion afterwards! Tomorrow, 9:30a Pacific on
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
🚨 Tomorrow at 9:30a Pacific! @FredKSchott talking about the future of JavaScript as part of the OCTO Speaker series, streaming live on Fred is the author of @snowpackjs and the founder behind the JS package CDN, @skypackjs
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
10 months
Right now the openings are posted for the US, Canada, and the UK. Visit to find the application link for each location. We may be able to hire elsewhere, but it depends on location, and it depends on us getting approval to do so, which is not guaranteed.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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@svpino @github Please hold, your call is important to us. But also it's finally the weekend after a long and intense week for the team. Raised this on slack but it's a ghost town right now and that's a very healthy thing 💖
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GitHub Next
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🧯Writing code is only one part of software development, just as often we debug existing code. Copilot Voice now has new interactions with a debugger, including features like adding and removing breakpoints or checking the value of variables.
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
4 years
OCTO Speaker Series #2 is coming next week! Episode 2 will be hosting @rjmh to share his take on property-based software testing and experiences with QuickCheck. 📅 Oct 8th, 09:30a Pacific, signups below! 👇
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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Nailed it, @fireship_dev Our job is to make dev easier for developers. We're trying to do more than code completion or chat because you don't build skyscrapers without power tools.
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GitHub Next
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👀 @idangazit is at @DataCouncilAI this week to share learnings from our work on CopilotX and other explorations! Check the Wednesday keynote panel on the future of AI, and a talk on designing products for AI on Thursday. ✨🤖✨
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
2 years
this component was built as part of our Flat Data project - check out this write-up for more info: or this tool to explore any csv or json file on GitHub:
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GitHub Next
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In this project, we have used GPT-4 to generate numeric calculation code relevant to question answering, then execute that code, and then use the results to write a more accurate question answer. The technical report discusses some evaluation results, related work and variations
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@1littlecoder We already have a Devin. I mean Devon. Specifically @devonrifkin . Who happens to work on Workspace. Hang on, I'm going to need a whiteboard to diagram this out, one sec
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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This is a completed project, and we're sharing our investigations as a GitHub Next Technical Report for AI developers. We'll be looking at using this and related techniques where necessary in future projects! ✌️❤️ GitHub Next
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GitHub Next
4 years
OCTO Speaker Series #3 is coming up! We're delighted to host Simon Peyton-Jones ( @simonpj0 ) of Microsoft Research to talk about computer science education at scale. 📅 Oct 22nd, 09:00a Pacific. Signups below! 👇
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GitHub Next
6 months
Hat tip to @wuputah for the meme
@ashtom
Thomas Dohmke
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@svpino
Santiago
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I got access to Copilot Workspace. If Devin were a beer, Copilot Workspace would be more like a refined wine that people with good taste would appreciate. My first impressions are very positive—like, "Holly Molly, this is cool!" positive. Of course, I still need more time to
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one of the future directions shows imports & exports between files - a great way to see how files in the codebase are connected
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GitHub Next
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🗣️ It's coming up! @brainwane will be joining OCTO Speaker Series at a timely moment to talk about open source communities, and what it will take to make them healthy. 📅 See you on Tuesday, Mar 30th at 9:30a Pacific on
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GitHub Next
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For more about these prototypes and our other projects, check out , or join our discord at to meet other folks who are interested in the future of software development, attend office hours, and get help with the various prototypes.
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GitHub Next
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🚨We're holding our first office hours for #GitHubBlocks right now! Come on down to the discord and talk with the folks from next, build a block, ask us questions!
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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Seriously, the dulcet tones of @reddobowen . Hypnotic. Serene. Calm productivity. Oh also it's a detailed screencast showing off CW in action. But it's okay if you just want to listen to Chris all day, too. 💖
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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@AaronDewes Your sleuthing was impressive. We were impressed. 💖
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GitHub Next
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Tune in now to @thursdai_pod with @altryne who is hosting Next's @idangazit to talk about all the prototypes that Next has been building lately!
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
3 years
OCTO Speaker Series #5 is coming TOMORROW! @ashevat has run devrel at developer-focused orgs: Google, Twitch, and Slack. Come for a deep dive, stay for Q&A with Amir and @jasoncwarner 🙌 Streaming on , Dec 2nd, 9:30a PT
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GitHub Next
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The demo that @blackgirlbytes gave of #heygithub this morning is just the start, and it's mindblowing to use in person. Hear from Beatrice about her experience using it:
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@antfu7 Don't sleep on the mechanical one (Krypton) It looks funky at display sizes, but it feels shockingly nice for code.
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GitHub Next
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It's so hard to keep that fragile state in your head, and so frustrating when you lose it. Happiness _is_ productivity, and productivity is as much (or more!) about focus than it is about total LoC.
@ashtom
Thomas Dohmke
2 years
We surveyed 2,000+ developers to learn at scale about their experience using GitHub Copilot. The results were clear: A happy developer is a productive developer, with up to 75% of devs reported feeling more fulfilled and focused in their jobs. (1/2)
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Speaker Series Ep. 1 recording is up! @denaefordrobin 's research on how successful online communities are built is 🔥 Stay tuned for details about the upcoming Episode 2! 👀
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@GitHubNext
GitHub Next
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See @szabta89 (one of the engineers behind Copilot Workspace) in three dimensions and super high-res, super low-latency, aka "in real life". Also: see CW in action and hear a little bit about how it works✨
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Tamás Szabó
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Would you like to learn more about Copilot Workspace and see it in action? Come join me at @CraftConf or at the Budapest AI Hub event organized by @iseeq_co 🎇
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Krzysztof Cieślak 💙💛
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Yes, we've been using GitHub Copilot to develop GitHub Copilot ;-)
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Are you at #githubuniverse ? Come by the GitHub Next desk in the expo hall to talk with us about #heygithub and peek all the demos we're sharing today! 👀👀👀
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@SferaDev We can't wait to show you! Tune in to @kdaigle 's session later today...
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We start with a tour of the create-react-app repository...
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and end with a few future directions. We looked at the top of the iceberg here, but see tons of potential for future explorations!
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GitHub Next
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👋 it us!
@github
GitHub
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'Hey, GitHub!' is an experiment from the GitHub Next team that aims to reduce the need for a keyboard by enabling voice-based interaction with GitHub Copilot. Sign up now to join the waitlist:
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@EliteMasterEric It's theoretical for now because there's never been a set of fonts like this before! Can't have airports before inventing the airplane, etc etc. We're talking with the VS Code team to make it happen!
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@maccaw When indeed.
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we added the ability to link directly to a visualization of your repository! Just search and share. For example, here is the redux codebase:
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@Neesh774 Did you try clicking on them? 😎
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@ErfanEbrahimnia Generating test fixtures, pulling down an evergreen subset of sample data to develop against, pulling static data and building a static website that renders it somehow — there's a ton of applications! We highlight a few in the writeup 😊
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@ootsby We chose @deno_land because URL imports is key requirement for "one script" postprocessing. Anything with bundling or dependencies would have imposed a huge amount of complexity.
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GitHub Next
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"Probably"
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@Wattenberger
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷
3 years
today is my first day at Github! 🌟😀🌟 you're looking at the newest Staff Engineer doing R&D of developer experience on the @githubOCTO team 🌟🤙🌟 I'm _so_ excited to explore crazy ideas for making your workflow better - first agenda item: VR pull requests (jk, probably)
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as well as a GitHub Action to keep an updated diagram in your README...
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