The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

You’re not making a clone of the repo; instead you’re using GitHub’s APIs to work directly against your cloud-hosted code. Github.dev isn’t a replacement for a local editor.

The latest version of Visual Studio 2019, v16.4, brings a new integration with Microsoft-owned code-sharing site GitHub, which allows users to publish code directly from Team Explorer, the feature ...