GitHub Copilot suggests code completions and can generate entire functions based on context inside popular editors.
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About GitHub Copilot
What it is
GitHub Copilot is an AI assistant for writing code. It works inside editors like VS Code, suggesting the next lines as you type, and it has a chat panel for asking questions about the code in front of you. It can explain unfamiliar code, write tests, and propose fixes.
Why it's different
It is the one that meets you where you already work. Rather than a separate window you paste code into, suggestions appear inline as you type, with the surrounding file as context. That makes it strongest at the predictable middle of programming — boilerplate, obvious next lines, the test you were about to write. It is weakest at anything requiring judgement about the system as a whole, and it will produce confident code that does not compile.
How people use it
Filling in repetitive code that is obvious but tedious. Writing a first set of tests, then correcting them. Explaining a codebase someone else wrote, which is one of its most useful and least discussed uses. Getting past a blank file. Experienced developers treat every suggestion as a draft to review, which is the only safe way to use it — accepting suggestions unread is how subtle bugs arrive.
Step by step
- Write the function signature and a comment saying what it does, then pause. Completion is far better at finishing a stated intention than at guessing one.
- Keep the files it should imitate open in adjacent tabs, because open tabs are most of the context it sees.
- Press Escape and keep typing when a suggestion is wrong. Accepting and then fixing is slower than writing it yourself.
- Use Copilot Chat for explaining unfamiliar code rather than for writing new code, which is where it is most reliably better than reading.
- Never accept a suggested regular expression, credential or licence header without checking it. Those are the three it gets confidently wrong.
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