GitHub has launched a preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding assistant for Visual Studio Code that suggests lines of code or functions as you type.. Built in collaboration with OpenAI ...

GitHub Copilot, which leverages AI to suggest code, will be general availability in summer 2022 -- free for students and "verified" open source contributors.

You should still learn to code, GitHub's CEO says. ... Copilot or ChatGPT or similar tools, and it will likely write you a basic webpage, or a small application, a game in Python," Dohmke said.