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GitHub Copilot

Microsoft/GitHub's AI coding assistant. Pricing and model availability tracked here as they shift.

6 articles First covered Apr 22, 2026, latest Jul 25, 2026

Codeberg banned LLM-generated projects, and Debian is voting on the same question

Codeberg's terms now bar projects that mostly consist of AI-written code. Debian's open resolution puts three answers on one ballot. Provenance is the crux.

AI·4 weeks ago

GitHub ran four frontier models through Copilot's harness. None won every task.

GitHub benchmarked Copilot's agent harness against Claude Code and Codex CLI on five tests. The token savings are real, and the best model depends on the task.

A software engineer at a laptop, the kind of AI-assisted coding workflow whose token costs blew through Uber's annual budget.

AI·2 months ago

Uber blew its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Its COO can't prove it paid off.

Uber exhausted its full-year Claude Code budget by April. Adoption hit 84%, heavy users burn $2,000 a month, and COO Andrew Macdonald can't connect the spend to shipped features.

Illustration of a Git commit message stamped with a Copilot co-author trailer.

Web·3 months ago

VS Code shipped 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' on every commit by default. Microsoft is reverting it.

A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.

GitHub Octocat mark on a dark gradient, the cover graphic on the GitHub Blog post announcing the Copilot billing change.

AI·3 months ago

GitHub Copilot kills premium requests on June 1. Token billing arrives, fallback models do not.

On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.

GitHub Copilot announcement cover graphic

AI·3 months ago

GitHub Copilot paused new signups and kicked Opus out of Pro. Here's what actually changed.

GitHub froze Copilot Pro/Pro+/Student signups on April 20 and moved Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier. Agent workflows broke the old math.