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- So if you've been hearing about AI tools that can write code for you or with you, in this case, Copilot is usually at the top of this list. But what is it exactly? So what we're going to do in this video is we're going to break that down so that you understand, you know, before we start using this tool, what exactly it is and what it can do for you. So GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered code completion tool, and it's been developed through a partnership between a few companies. Among those are GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft. So you can think of Copilot as kind of like a smart assistant that lives inside your development environment. And this is one big thing that kind of separates it from other tools is a lot of other tools can write code, but then you have to like copy and paste that code into your IDE or whatever environment you're developing in. All right? So another thing is, unlike traditional autocomplete tools that just do things like finish variable names or maybe suggest simple…

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