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GitHub Copilot

GitHub's AI pair programmer that suggests code completions as you type in your editor.

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GitHub Copilot was one of the first mainstream AI coding assistants. It provides real-time code suggestions in your editor, powered by OpenAI's models trained on public code. It works best for autocompleting boilerplate, writing tests, and generating code from comments.

While it's been somewhat overtaken by more agentic tools like Cursor, it's still the most widely adopted AI coding tool with deep GitHub integration.

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