The almighty GitHub Copilot is now free!

You get a magnificent 2,000 code completions per month — just enough to make you dependent but not enough to actually finish a project.

But hey, Microsoft has this grand vision of “enabling one billion developers on GitHub” — because apparently, 150 million suffering developers aren’t enough. They’re “fusing the world’s most popular AI developer tool with the world’s most powerful code editor” — a marriage nobody asked for but everyone’s getting anyway!

Choose your AI overlord wisely: Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o. One writes poetry while refactoring your code, the other judges your variable naming with passive-aggressive comments. Both will happily help you reinvent the wheel with fresh bugs included at no extra charge!

And now you can “explain code entirely in natural language” — because reading documentation was so 2023. Plus, you get “multi-file edits” — perfect for breaking your entire codebase at once instead of just one file at a time!

The dashboard integration means you can now ask Copilot deep questions like:

  • “Why does my code work in dev but not in prod?”
  • “Can you explain this legacy code written five years ago?”
  • “How many Stack Overflow posts were harmed in making this suggestion?”

But wait — there’s more! You can “access Copilot’s third-party ecosystem of agents” — because one AI assistant wasn’t confusing enough. And of course, you still get those beloved “code completions, the core function that started the entire Copilot platform shift” — or as I like to call it, “Stack Overflow with extra steps.”

The best part? It integrates seamlessly with VS Code, because apparently, what every developer needs is another popup interrupting their flow state. You now have a very eager intern who watched one YouTube coding tutorial and now won’t stop suggesting “optimizations.”

And remember, with great power comes great subscription fees. But don’t worry — it’s all part of Microsoft’s master plan to democratize AI… one confused developer at a time.

Author Of article : Fabian Frank Werner Read full article