GitHub Copilot, launched in 2021 and built on OpenAI Codex (later GPT-4), was the first AI pair programmer to reach mainstream adoption. It integrates as an extension into VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, and Visual Studio, making it the broadest-reaching AI coding tool by editor support.

Core Capabilities

  • Inline completions, suggests the next line or block as you type, shown as ghost text
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In News That Surprises No One, LLM Usage Leads to Less Brain Activity

Last year, MIT published a paper titled, "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task." It's over 200 pages, but you can read it yourself. (What else have you got going on this weekend?)

The study's findings are not surprising. If you use an LLM like Claude or ChatGPT to write something, it results in less creativity, less…

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