---
title: "Is GitHub Copilot a Threat to Developers?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-github-copilot-a-threat-to-developers--fpo5aacub
source_url: https://blog.openreplay.com/is-github-copilot-a-threat-to-developers/
type: article
source: "asayer"
published: 2022-10-20T23:53:07.265Z
updated: 2022-10-20T23:53:07.263Z
tags: ["github", "open-source", "nlp", "vscode"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 32
comments: 8
language: en
---

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# Is GitHub Copilot a Threat to Developers?

**[asayer](https://daily.dev/sources/asayer)** · 5 min read · 32 upvotes · 8 comments

## Summary

GitHub Copilot is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI, an AI research laboratory. It is available as a Visual Studio Code, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environment extension (IDEs) Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real time from editor Code problems.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@davidteren** · 10 upvotes

> It may well be a threat to StackOverflow 😀

**@jberrios94** · 4 upvotes

> I have been using for months now, since beta and I believe it doesn't bring a threat to Developers. In fact, it has helped me learn some frameworks I was not familiar with too much at my job and when I need to get some quick code out there, it helps me set the base and then I go and modify it or I just follow along with its suggestion but do not tab over for the suggestion to be implemented. It is of course not perfect but its impressive enough to the point that it has helped me to stay focused and on track when I am coding.
>
> I think its how we perceive it and use it within our developer...

**@jkasavage** · 0 upvotes

> Tabnine is better and more secure IMO.

**@pboling** · 0 upvotes

> Yes, it steals our open source code.

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