GitHub’s AI-driven programmer costs $10 a month

Github has released Copilot, an AI-driven pair programmer that helps developers write code, to the general public. The tool costs $10 per month or $100 per year. Students and employees of popular open source projects do not have to pay.

GitHub released a preview of Copilot a year ago and it became according to Github used by more than 1.2 million developers in 12 months. In projects where the AI-powered pair programmer was enabled, nearly 40 percent of the code was written by Copilot.

Copilot was developed in collaboration with OpenAI and uses the OpenAI Codex. The AI ​​application provides suggestions for new lines of code as well as complete functions during programming. The tool analyzes the current code of the project for this purpose. Copilot can also turn comments into code, complete repetitive code, and test features as you write. Users can add suggestions provided by the tool to their project or simply ignore them. Suggested code can also be edited manually.

Copilot is more than an autocomplete, according to Github. For example, the tool learns from the context, but also from pre-written code. It understands when a docstring is typed, a comment, a function name or a regular line of code. The tool can be downloaded as an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Neovim and various JetBrains IDEs.

GitHub’s Copilot