OpenAI Launches GitHub Copilot: AI Focused On Code Generation. Should We Be Worried Now?

Considering its merits and flaws, it is worth asking if GitHub Copilot affects developer jobs in the future. When GPT-3 was released, the answer to this question was a tentative, faint yes. However, now that Copilot is out and will be a commercially available product that integrates into one of the heavily used IDEs globally, we should reconsider our answer. The creators claim the tool will only serve to boost productivity and free developers from doing manual tasks and help them focus on more interesting work. It might also be possible it lowers the barriers for beginners to enter the software industry.