This week GitHub announced that GitHub Copilot Chat is now generally available. All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost for both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. It is also free to verified teachers, students, and maintainers of popular open-source projects.
What is GitHub Copilot Chat? GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that lets you interact with GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant, within supported IDEs. You can use GitHub Copilot Chat to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions, get code suggestions, explanations, unit tests, and bug fixes, and learn new languages or frameworks.
GitHub Copilot Chat is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, which is fine-tuned specifically for dev scenarios. You can prompt GitHub Copilot Chat in natural language to get help with learning new languages or frameworks, troubleshooting bugs, writing unit tests, detecting vulnerabilities, and more. GitHub Copilot Chat also supports multiple languages, so you can communicate with it in your preferred language.
To get started with GitHub Copilot Chat, you need to sign up for GitHub Copilot and install the GitHub Copilot extension in your IDE. You can then access GitHub Copilot Chat from the sidebar and start chatting with it. In Visual Studio, go to the View menu and select “GitHub Copilot Chat” to show the pane.
Then ask it a question…
You can also check out the documentation and the FAQ for more information.
Enjoy!
Reference
GitHub Copilot Chat is now generally available for organizations and individuals – The GitHub Blog
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