Meta's new Code Llama 70B takes aim at Github's Copilot — it's far better than the original 5-month old Code Llama but I can't help but wonder if devs will love it.

Microsoft-owned GitHub, which has introduced a series of powerful generative AI tools to its popular developer platform in recent years, still believes that there’s a place for traditional code.

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

GitHub has launched a preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding assistant for Visual Studio Code that suggests lines of code or functions as you type.. Built in collaboration with OpenAI ...

GitHub frames this new tool as an AI pair programmer. The model behind GitHub Copilot has been trained on billions of lines of code — many of them are hosted and available publicly on GitHub itself.

In the background, this new feature uses the CodeQL engine, GitHub’s semantic analysis engine to find vulnerabilities in code, even before it has been executed.

You might not know that, according to a new GitHub programmer survey, "92% of US-based developers are already using AI coding tools both in and outside of work." Also: GPT 3.5 vs GPT 4: Is ChatGPT ...