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Stop blindly trusting GitHub Copilot: 4 reasons it’s failing as a coding agent

From rewriting entire files for tiny changes to getting stuck in logic loops, here is why you might want to think twice.

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Microsoft first started adopting Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model inside its developer division in June last year, before ...
Yahoo

GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask questions about code

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of today, Copilot Chat is available in the sidebar in Microsoft's IDEs, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio -- included as a ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduces Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to define reusable, domain-specific ...
ZDNet

Sure, GitHub's AI-assisted Copilot writes code for you, but is it legal or ethical?

GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, has been out for less than a month now, but it's already wildly popular. In projects where it's enabled, GitHub states nearly 40% of code is ...
InfoWorld

Review: GitHub Copilot preview gives me hope

The Copilot technical preview doesn’t always generate good, correct, or even running code, but it’s still somewhat useful. Future versions could be real time-savers. People have been predicting the ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to generate code, optimize code, fix bugs, and create unit tests, right from within your IDE ...