Devon Rifkin

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 test it. GitHub is using its unfair advantage very effectively: the tool is fully integrated with GitHub. You can generate code directly in a repository, solve a reported issue, and test it without leaving the interface. But the best part is the approach: Ask Copilot something, and it will generate a specification for you. You can read it and make changes to it if you want to. Once you approve the specification, Copilot will generate a plan. It's a bullet list telling you what it will do on every repo file. Again, you can add things to the plan or correct any mistakes. After you approve the plan, Copilot will start writing the code and making the changes. The approach here is very different: GitHub is not positioning Copilot as a hostile tool for developers. They ain't trying to get anybody's job. Instead, they are positioning the tool as an aid to developers. Big difference. I like it. I'll record a video to show you how this works. Subscribe to my YouTube channel if you don't want to miss it.