AI-powered coding just got more accessible with GitHub Copilot's free plan. Here's how to set it up in VS Code, step-by-step, and find out whether it's smart enough to actually improve your work.

I tested GitHub Copilot embedded inside a VS Code instance. I'll explain how to set that up and use GitHub Copilot in an upcoming step-by-step article. But first, let's run through the tests.

Microsoft -owned GitHub, which has introduced a series of powerful generative AI tools to its popular developer platform in recent years, still believes that there’s a place for traditional code.

GitHub says that it recently tested Copilot to see if it could fill in the bodies of "a set of Python functions that have good test coverage in open source repos." It was said to have succeeded on ...

Figure C Figure C: You must sign in to GitHub before you can use the extension. Click Sign In, and a pop-up will open informing you Visual Studio Code wants to sign in using GitHub.

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 ...

That study was noted in the new whitepaper from GitClear, which sells a cloud-based code review tool. In addition to productivity, the GitHub study also measured positive effects in developer ...