What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant built into GitHub. It suggests code as a developer types, answers questions in a chat and explains code. It can also be given a GitHub issue to work on as an agent.
GitHub says Copilot gives help across the software development process, from suggestions and chat in a code editor to explanations and answers inside GitHub. It can review pull requests, work from the command line through the GitHub command line tool, and be assigned a GitHub issue to complete the work on its own. It works in editors such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs and Neovim.
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