If you are student, use Github, used Copilot and are now unable to access the service for free after the recent upgrade, you just have to follow the following steps.
- Add your student email to your Github account.
- Verify your student at Github.
- Log on to https://github.com/github-copilot/free_signup
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GitHub Copilot is similar in functionality to Google's search suggestions, but for code. Google learns about you as a user and provides more relevant results based on your previous searches and your other online habits. Copilot works in a similar way, but instead of providing search results -- it provides code suggestions. Just like Google needing relevant search terms to provide useful results, we can safely assume GitHub's Copilot and it's future iterations will also require valuable starting data to provide useful recommendations.
In Copilots' technical preview, it was able to guess the content correctly in about 43% of the demonstrated cases. To use this tool effectively you have to deeply understand every line of code. Using it requires you to have been able to write whatever snippet was autocompleted yourself. Even if this percentage approaches 100%, the developer will still need to input the project requirements (aka code) in a schema that Copilot will be able to understand.
If you would like to learn a bit more about GitHub Copilot, I'd suggest checking out this article written by my colleague, Rafael: scalablepath.com/full-stack/ai-pai...