Benjamin Pasero

Something exciting is coming to the VS Code family and I cannot wait to share more about it soon. Happy building ✨

We promised, we delivered. The GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code is now open source under the MIT license. This means, you can: 🔍 Explore the code on GitHub 🛠️ Open PRs, file issues & contribute 💬 See what prompts/context we send to LLMs 🤖 Use Copilot agent mode to implement your own features and bugfixes And this is just the beginning. Next, we’ll refactor components of Copilot into the heart of VS Code. Open source is the largest team sport on earth. Together, let’s keep winning! 🥇

Claude 3.5 Sonnet, directly in @code Available to everyone today with GitHub Copilot Free. Learn more: aka.ms/copilot-free

Say hello to the new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code 👋 Get started today ⬇️ github.blog/news-insights/…

Get started with the all-new free plan for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in @code All you need is a GitHub account, and you'll have access to: ✨ 2000 code completions per month ✨ 50 chat messages per month ✨ Models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o aka.ms/copilot-free

Announcing GitHub Copilot Free! A new free tier for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in @code No trial. No subscription. No credit card required. Learn more in our blog: aka.ms/copilot-free

GitHub Copilot Free for VS Code has arrived.

Prepare to take flight 👀

The new @code release has the latest GitHub Copilot features. Here’s what you need to know... 🧵

🧵It's ship city in Copilot + VS Code. Can now clearly see multi-file progress as edits stream in. W/the editor overlay controls, can easily cycle through all changes and accept or discard them.

📣 Want to design and build VS Code with some of the most talented software makers in the world? The team is hiring not one but TWO design engineers: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

🚀 Version 1.95 of @code is out now with Copilot Edits (in preview), docstrings with Pylance, multiple GitHub accounts support, and more! Full release notes: code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_95 Here are some of the highlights 🧵

Announcing Copilot Edits in @code with GitHub Copilot 🎉 Quickly iterate on large changes across multiple files, bringing the conversational flow of Copilot Chat and fast feedback from Inline Chat together in one experience.

Did you know that you can use GitHub Copilot in notebooks? Accept and run generated code with just a click. You can even attach variables from the Jupyter kernel in your requests ✨

Our ESM work is live in the latest @code stable release, giving a big boost to startup speed. The main workbench bundle is leaner, trimming down by over 10%!

📢 We just launched new docs for getting started with GitHub Copilot extensibility in @code! This includes two tutorials so you can build your very own @code extension that integrates AI-powered features or contributes a Chat participant. Happy coding! code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/c…

File links in Copilot Chat are much improved. You'll notice you now have file icons - and these links are interactive. Select to open. Open side-by-side or in explorer view and more.

Searching for files in large projects has never been easier 🚀 Check out the real-time search results for the #vscode project, which has thousands of files (and yes, we use @code to write @code). You can easily switch between fuzzy matching and continuous matching too!

💾 opening a local folder on insiders.vscode.dev in @code for web now supports file events when using Chrome 129+. 👉 chromestatus.com/feature/462224… Thanks @tomayac for guidance and support!

📢 Version 1.94 of @code is out now with improved Find control in the Explorer view, more relevant chat context, faster startup with ESM, and more! Full release notes: code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_94 Let’s go… 🧵