Level up with GitHub Copilot: using AI to learn, code, and build
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Overview of GitHub Copilot's concrete capabilities and impact: uses OpenAI-trained models for inline code suggestions and a conversational Copilot Chat, supports VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains and the terminal, and handles Python/JavaScript/Java/Go/TypeScript. Live features include slash commands (explain, tests, fix, new), repo indexing to answer questions about a project, test generation and language translation. Cited study with 95 developers shows 78% vs 70% completion and 1h11m vs 2h41m time, with over 1.5M developers and reported ~55% faster coding.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 1:57Agenda
- 2:46What is AI
- 6:50What is GitHub Copilot
- 7:47Pair Programming
- 9:28Reverse Sentence
- 13:27Why I dont do live demos
- 15:23GitHub Copilot Chat
- 17:33Help Copilot
- 31:00Commands
- 34:20Languages
- 35:23Available in
- 36:21Are the robots taking our jobs
- 39:21The developers who were using GitHub Copilot
- 40:18OpenAIs large language model
- 41:39Wedding RSVPs
- 45:16Developers love GitHub Copilot
- 48:12AI and productivity
- 48:54GitHub Copilot settings
- 52:16GitHub Copilot in the terminal
- 53:01Generic Git commands
- 53:21Generic shell commands
- 53:43Free for 60 days
- 55:17AI capabilities
- 57:49GitHub CER
- 58:21Resources
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