If your code could speak, what would it tell you? Let GitHub Copilot Chat help you find out!
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The document outlines how GitHub Copilot Chat enhances developer productivity by providing contextual coding support, automating repetitive tasks, and facilitating collaboration in software development. Key features include improved code quality, streamlined documentation, and customizable AI models to assist in coding, debugging, and understanding complex code structures. The document also emphasizes the significance of maintaining a conducive flow in coding and includes links to resources for further exploration.
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If your code could speak, what would it tell you? Let GitHub Copilot Chat help you find out!
- 1. If your code could speak, what would it tell you? Let GitHub Copilot Chat help you find out! Maxim Salnikov Developer Productivity Lead
- 2. Maxim Salnikov • Building on web platform since 90s • Organizing developer communities and technical conferences • Speaking, training, blogging: Webdev, Cloud, Generative AI Help developers to succeed with the productivity tools at Microsoft Western Europe
- 3. How to stay in the flow? https://github.blog/2024-01-22-how-to-get-in-the-flow-while-coding-and-why-its-important/ • Improved test coverage • Faster, cleaner, more secure code writing • Novel, creative solutions • Speedier deployments 1. Challenge-skills balance 2. Total concentration 3. Clear goals 4. Immediate feedback 5. Transformation of time 6. Feeling intrinsically rewarded 7. Effortlessness 8. Loss of self-consciousness 9. Feeling of total control
- 4. 87% 74% 73% focus on more satisfying work less mental effort on repetitive tasks say they are more in the flow Developer experience with Copilot
- 5. Designing Brainstorming More time on Less time on Focus on what matters most Writing Tests, Repetitive Code, & Boilerplate Searching Documentation Finding Vulnerabilities Deciphering Existing Code Summarizing Changes and Comments Correcting Syntax Learning Git Commands Collaborating Iterating Planning Debugging
- 6. The Copilot effect Maximize developer happiness Increase developer productivity Accelerate software development https://github.blog/2024-01-23-good-devex-increases-productivity/
- 7. 1st pick among developers 55% 1.5M 37K developers prefer GitHub Copilot to other AI coding tools companies
- 8. • Refactoring code • Reviewing code • Writing documentation • Convert comments to code • Autofill for repetitive code • Show alternatives 1 Planning 2 Analysis 3 Design 4 Implementation 5 Testing & Integration 6 Maintenance The Software Development Lifecycle • Unit testing • Finding code errors • Debugging • Code review • Pull Requests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life_cycle
- 10. Code completion: save time and energy on writing code Convert comments to code Autofill for repetitive code Show alternatives
- 11. Chat: Improve code quality with contextual conversations Context specific coding support Explains concepts and specific code blocks Debugging and vulnerability remediation assistance
- 12. IN BETA
- 13. CLI: Enable developers to take command of the CLI Git command assistance in the terminal Command and script explanations
- 15. Pull requests: Simplify collaboration by adding clarity to pull requests Pull request summaries Explanations on changes and comments Automated code reviews
- 16. Documentation: Search through documentation effortlessly Conversational documentation search Customized to your documentation Summaries and references to sources
- 17. Fine tune responses with custom models Draws context from your code and knowledge Fine tuning and custom private models
- 19. • To have better experience and control over code generation • To go for other code-related tasks: fix, explain, document & more • To provide more context and keep it • To extend Copilot features to non- code tasks: Terminal, IDE docs Why chatting with/about your code?
- 20. How to start? VS Code Visual Studio https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/github-copilot-chat/using-github-copilot-chat-in-your-ide?tool=vscode
- 21. Choose your way to chat https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/overview#_chat-features Chat view Ctrl-Alt-I Ask Copilot for help with any task or question in the Chat view, bringing in code from your current files Inline Chat Ctrl-I Apply Copilot's AI suggestions directly to your code, staying in the flow Quick Chat Ctrl-Shift-I Bring up a Chat-powered dropdown for quick questions and suggestions + Command palette + Context menu + Sparkles icons
- 22. Tips and tricks Single responsibility Specific prompt Short response Use for patterns (Regex, CRON) Trust but verify Iterate, iterate, iterate! Provide extra context
- 23. The known limitations Training data impacts suggestions Copilot != Compiler Context window
- 24. How is context used? https://github.blog/2023-05-17-how-github-copilot-is-getting-better-at-understanding-your-code/
- 25. @workspace Agents @terminal @vscode • GitHub's knowledge graph combined with semantic search • Local code indexes • VS Code's language services Ctrl-Enter in Chat view Knows how to gather context about the code in your workspace, can help you navigate it, find relevant classes, files, etc. Powered by: • Knows about the operating system and the shell used • Workspace information is conditionally pulled in https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_chat-agents • Knows about commands and features in the VS Code editor itself
- 26. Slash commands /doc /explain /fix /generate /help /optimize /tests /new /newNotebook /help to add a documentation comment to explain the code including implementations of ref symbols to propose a fix for the problems in the selected code to generate code to answer your question to get help with Copilot Chat to analyze and improve the running time of the selected code to create unit tests for the selected code to scaffold code for a new workspace to create a new Jupyter Notebook to not remember everything above “Create a new workspace with Node.js Express Pug TypeScript” VS “@workspace /new Node.js Express Pug TypeScript” https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2023/11/13/vscode-copilot-smarter#_slash-commands
- 27. Context variables https://github.blog/changelog/label/copilot/#context-variables #file:<filename> • Full content or • Outline (functions without implementations) #editor • Code in the viewport #selection #git #terminalLastCommand #terminalSelection #terminalShellType
- 28. WHERE TO FOLLOW THE LATEST UPDATES? Release notes • https://github.blog/changelog/label/copilot/ • https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/ Blogs • https://github.blog/tag/github-copilot/ • https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/ In action • Install VS Code Insiders + switch to pre-release extension versions OR…
- 29. Maxim Salnikov CONNECT AND ASK
- 30. DEMO TIME!