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Summary

GitHub Copilot is part of the Code Autocompletion family: Code autocompletion tools save developers time and effort by automatically suggesting and completing code snippets based on the context of the code being written. Aider is a Command-line tool Developers use command-line tools to interact with the computer's operating system and execute commands. They can be used to automate tasks, manage files, and perform other operations, and can be composed together to create more complex commands. The command line is also used to interact with remote computers.

GitHub Copilot specializes in Context-aware suggestions, Deep GitHub integration, while Aider excels in Voice commands, Automatic commit generation.