GitHubs AI-powered programmer costs $10 a month

Github has released Copilot, an AI-powered pair programmer that helps developers write code, to the general public. The tool costs $10 a month or $100 a 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 was according to Github used by more than 1.2 million developers in 12 months. In projects involving the AI-powered pair programmer, 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 you program, as well as complete functions. To do this, the tool analyzes the current code of the project. Copilot can also convert 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.

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

GitHubs Copilot