Tips & Tricks: Get the Most Out of GitHub CoPilot
summary
Live demos show GitHub Copilot inside VS Code, Codespaces and Visual Studio 2022 generating code, explaining errors, and editing files: it writes a strip HTML via regex function, creates add Jest tests files and configs, crafts CSS to keep header/footer fixed with a scrollable main, scaffolds a task service matching project conventions, and injects a StackOverflow-causing recursion so the IDE’s Explain this chat explains the exception. Claims include Copilot not compiling code, being trained to a fixed point, and requiring open-file and comment context; iterations and verification are essential.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:04Speaker intro
- 3:35How Copilot works
- 6:27Copilot limitations
- 9:15Setting up and using GitHub Copilot in IDEs
- 11:21Better context tips
- 15:33Beyond coding uses
- 17:41Demo: Code completion
- 25:37Demo: Docs and tests
- 33:01Demo: CSS styles
- 41:50Demo: Refactoring code
- 48:11Demo: New features
- 53:24Demo: Debugging in VS
- 56:14Key tips recap
- 58:20Future features
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