August 23rd, 2024

GitHub Named a Leader in the Gartner First Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

GitHub has been recognized as a Leader in Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, excelling in execution and vision, with plans to enhance AI tools for one billion developers.

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GitHub Named a Leader in the Gartner First Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

GitHub has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, reflecting its strong execution and vision in the AI development space. The report evaluated 12 vendors, with GitHub achieving the highest ranking in execution and a leading position in vision completeness. GitHub Copilot, the company's AI-powered coding assistant, aims to enhance developer productivity and creativity by integrating generative AI into the software development process. Key innovations over the past year include GitHub Copilot Enterprise, which leverages organizational knowledge, and GitHub Copilot Workspace, which offers an AI-native development environment. Additionally, Copilot Autofix in GitHub Advanced Security helps developers manage security vulnerabilities effectively. Looking ahead, GitHub plans to continue enhancing Copilot's capabilities to support a broader range of developers, aspiring to engage one billion users globally. This recognition by Gartner underscores GitHub's commitment to improving the developer experience through AI-driven solutions.

- GitHub named a Leader in Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants.

- The evaluation included 12 vendors, with GitHub excelling in execution and vision.

- Innovations include GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Workspace for enhanced developer productivity.

- GitHub aims to engage one billion developers globally with its AI tools.

- The company plans to continue investing in AI capabilities to support diverse developer needs.

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By @westurner - 5 months
Gartner "Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants" (2024) https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2IKO4MPE&ct=240819...

Additional criteria for assessing AI code assistants from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478539 re: Text-to-SQL bemchmarks :

codefuse-ai/Awesome-Code-LLM > Analysis of AI-Generated Code, Benchmarks: https://github.com/codefuse-ai/Awesome-Code-LLM :

> 8.2. Benchmarks: * Integrated Benchmarks, Program Synthesis, Visually Grounded Program Synthesis, Code Reasoning and QA, Text-to-SQL, Code Translation, Program Repair, Code Summarization, Defect/Vulnerability Detection, Code Retrieval, Type Inference, Commit Message Generation, Repo-Level Coding*

OT did not assess:

Aider: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider :

> Aider works best with GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet and can connect to almost any LLM.

https://aider.chat/ :

> Aider has one of the top scores on SWE Bench. SWE Bench is a challenging software engineering benchmark where aider solved real GitHub issues from popular open source projects like django, scikitlearn, matplotlib, etc

SWE Bench benchmark: https://www.swebench.com/