GitHub has announced that their Copilot is now automatically integrated into VS Code editor and available for anyone as part of the new Free tier.
Copilot Free gives you the choice between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT-4o model. You can ask a coding question, explain existing code, or have it find a bug. You can execute edits across multiple files. And you can access Copilot’s third-party agents or build your own extension.
Up until now GitHub was offering their Copilot in VS Code as a paid feature for $10 a month, though some exemptions included Open Source contributors, students, teachers, and even GitHub Stars. Now that GitHub Copilot is free for anyone, more developers will be able to use the power of AI to speed up web game development.
The Free tier have some limitations, but is more than enough to dive into the world of AI pair programming. The Pro tier now costs $10 a month and can be picked to expand on the Copilot capabilities.
GitHub Copilot is currently supported in many IDEs and editors, not only VS Code: you can use it in Visual Studio, Xcode, Jetbrains IDEs (for example WebStorm), Neovim, and Azure Data Studio.
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