Future-Proof Development with GitHub Codespaces, Copilot, and GPT-4

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Demo shows GitHub Codespaces spin up a fresh dev container and VS Code in ~40–50 seconds, uses devcontainer.json to preinstall extensions, forward ports and share a running API publicly; free tier gives ~120 core hours (~60 two‑core hours) before pay (examples suggest ~$14/week extra). GitHub Copilot accelerates boilerplate but produces wrong imports, bad IDs and outdated patterns (older Codex model). Local Azure‑backed GPT-4 rewrites code toward SQLite but fails intermittently; overall GPT‑4 shows stronger reasoning yet remains unpredictable.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:52Tech relevance fears
3. 5:19Cloud development environments
4. 7:07GitHub Codespaces setup
5. 17:13GitHub Codespaces pros and cons
6. 20:27GitHub Copilot for AI dev
7. 28:44GitHub Copilot costs
8. 31:37GPT-4 code generation demo
9. 43:16AI coding future
10. 44:21AI code side effects
11. 46:09Closing

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