GitHub Copilot Transforms Mockups into Code with Image-Based Generation

GitHub unveils updates for Copilot, including a feature that generates code from images, enhancing the AI-powered pair programmer’s capabilities.

GitHub just dropped some major updates for Copilot, its AI sidekick for coding, and let me tell you, the future looks pretty autonomous. One game-changer? Vision for Copilot. Imagine slapping a screenshot, a doodle, or even a napkin sketch into chat, and boom—Copilot whips up the code, interface, and alt text to make it real. For teams like marketing, this means no more wrestling with words to describe webpage tweaks; just upload and let the magic happen.

Remember when this was just a VS Code extension? Well, it’s growing up and moving into GitHub Copilot Chat as a built-in feature, so you can ditch that extra API key. And that’s not all. GitHub’s rolling out ‘next edit suggestions’, where Copilot gets all psychic, scanning your recent edits to guess (pretty accurately) what you’ll do next. It’s like having a coding buddy who finishes your sentences.

But wait, there’s more. GitHub’s dreaming big with an ‘agentic future’, starting with Copilot Edits (now out of beta). This bad boy lets you tweak multiple files with just a chat command. There’s even an ‘agent mode’ that plays detective, sniffing out which files need changes so you don’t have to. Thomas Dohmke, GitHub’s CEO, is all in on automating the grind, teasing Project Padawan—a secret sauce for crafting a software engineering agent that can take tasks off your plate without breaking a sweat.