GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals

GitHub has launched a public beta of GitHub Copilot Chat for individual users of Visual Studio and VS Code, expanding its AI-driven software development tools beyond business users. GitHub Copilot Chat, in conjunction with the GitHub Copilot pair programmer, aims to revolutionize software development by allowing developers to write code using natural language, thereby reducing boilerplate work and enhancing productivity. This tool provides real-time guidance, code analysis, security issue resolution, and troubleshooting, empowering both individual developers and teams to learn new languages, address coding challenges, and improve open-source project security without leaving their IDE. By positioning natural language as a universal programming language, GitHub Copilot Chat seeks to democratize software development, making it accessible to a diverse global audience and thus accelerating innovation and human progress.