GitHub Copilot just got exponentially smarter

GitHub Copilot just got a whole lot smarter! Ask questions about your ENTIRE project, speech-to-text support, auto-generated commit messages and more.

00:00 - The current limitations of Large Langage Models (LLMs)
01:07 - The new workspace command that allows Copilot to search your entire project
02:21 - Inline chat, iteration and anticipation
03:16 - New #context commands
03:41 - Solving terminal errors with context
04:57 - Explore the VS Code Speech extension
05:39 - Automatic commit message creation

#ai #githubcopilot #vscode

[davidh.]

This guy does a good job presenting, do more with him for sure.

[Lewdiculous]

It's only a matter of time "...until the Copilot becomes the Captain".

[codinginflow]

We are in this sweet spot right now where Copilot makes our dev jobs much less tedious while at the same time leaving enough creativity and skill for us as human developers. I hope it stay like that for a while 😃.

[denismaslovskiy]

It seems these updates bring the call with HR even closer

[DevLeonardo]

Great summary Burke! Loved the "storytelling" approach rather than just listing the features. It's much easier to follow and gives even more insight on how useful these new features are!
(I should try this approach in my videos too 🤔)

Ah right, also well done to the Copilot and vscode teams for delivering all of this :D

[lifeofvilla]

This is a great addition, I had to do everything piece by piece before. Thankful to the team for adding this!

[severedghost]

I love that it replaces pretty much nothing of what I was already doing, but cuts out all of the tedious lookup time it takes to do it.

[alexp-ru]

As a programmer, I gotta say that trying to remember the color of the FB button takes up 92.75% of my coding time :)

[wladefant]

Very nice summary of all the new features, and the vscode speech is cool too. I am using and we need some improvements to it, specifically a more natural interaction with it

[mlock]

"That's nuts!" I must admit I said the exact same thing a couple of times recently when copilot was on a roll. It is truly amazing. I find myself writing whole chunks of code with everything as I want it (in my style!) just using one or two characters, often none, and a whole lot of tab, tab, tab.

My new favourite trick is write a comment for what the next function should do and hit tab/enter. It writes a complete and perfect one a lot of the time, sometimes even finishing the comment correctly before I'm done!

[crackwitz]

I'd like it to suggest changes that I don't prompt it for... Like, I change one thing somewhere and it suggests what else needs changing to keep the code consistent.
Or it notices issues with the code that could be done better.

[davidh.]

This is what I've been wanting since starting to use co pilot. Can't wait to try it out!

[ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

Beautiful, this is the type of amazing thing I hope to see implemented industry-wide this decade.

[dksdmnb]

It's really impressive. Even so, I wouldn't consider going back from node 18 to node 10 a feasible solution in most of the cases...

[BensDevJourney]

Nice updates to VSCode! I especially love the commit message stuff, I am notorious for writing 'fix bug'

[DodaGarcia]

Having the context of the full project while working with GitHub Copilot has long been my most wanted feature! Refactoring is a huge part of maintaining large projects and the constant tracing of function calls can get incredibly tedious. Should become a lot easier now if Copilot can search the entire codebase for the different files where the pieces of the feature being refactored are located.

[marasoiua]

Thanks Burke! Awesome summary and really helpful!

[waelgh]

Cool to see Vue as a practical framework in the front end, also the commit message is nice to see

[jgrote]

Thanks Burke! This is a very sharable video.

[mtnwildernessfamily]

Mind blowing amazing. Tried it out in the last couple of hours. Very impressed.