Beyond The Hype: Every Day, Real World Uses for Copilot
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Demonstrates GitHub Copilot inside VS Code using custom instructions to pre-load specs, code styles and a sqlite schema, then generates a working e-commerce API scaffold (Tailwind Traders) including a schema, seed data, data models, services, tests, package.json and README; uses Copilot Edits and Claude Sonnet for codegen, and shows generate SQL schema and commit message generation saving hours, while noting occasional incomplete outputs, hallucinated lines and the need for human review.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00GitHub Copilot in VS Code
- 1:10Shortening Stack Overflow loop
- 2:55Custom instructions secret
- 6:06E-commerce API demo
- 13:55Copilot and database schema
- 18:33Three Copilot use cases
- 27:52Boilerplate and logic with Copilot
- 37:24Tests and package.json
- 41:40Open source project setup
- 47:02Professional changelog
- 51:01Q&A
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