AI-powered coding just got more accessible with GitHub Copilot's free plan. Here's how to set it up in VS Code, step-by-step, and find out whether it's smart enough to actually improve your work.

Key features Code Suggestions: GitHub Copilot can suggest whole lines or blocks of code, helping you write code faster and with fewer errors.

If it needs some form of code, it can be done through GitHub. But while you don't need to know how to write code to use GitHub, to absolute beginners things can be a little confusing.

GitHub announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new 'agent mode' in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code faster and ...

Learn how to unlock GPT-5 in VS Code using GitHub Copilot Pro. Here are the steps and how to bypass usage limits using your API key.

Learn how to add a GitHub repository to VS Code as well as how to install a handy extension to manage pull requests and issues.

Cranking out code On the surface, writing code involves typing statements and instructions in some programming language into a text file.

Built by OpenAI, the private research lab, and GitHub, the Microsoft-­owned website where programmers share code, the tool is essentially autocomplete for software development.