Why Use GitHub Copilot And Copilot Labs: Practical Use Cases for the AI Pair Programmer

Even though I didn't work at GitHub when they announced Copilot, I remember it piqued my interest. Perhaps, I was mostly excited because it was new and shiny. For me, the value of Copilot is that I spend less time stressing over syntax, which leaves more time for solving problems. More recently, GitHub Next, a team exploring the future of technology and software beyond the adjacent-possible, released Copilot Labs. This experimental VS Code sidebar enables developers to translate their code from one programming language to another and explains code snippets in plain language. These sound super cool, but when would you use them?