GitHub Copilot just got exponentially smarter 

he's excellent. I agree.

Likable, brief, to the point…and no unfunny humor

@@baylorc4904 Idunno, I could have gone with more half-second extreme close-ups and mega clipped audio hits (jk vscode plz do not do this)

Agreed

Agreed. I usually skip release feature vids directly from organisations because they manage to make them insufferable, over-exaggerated and sales-pitchy some how. This one just felt natural and to the point.

😂😂

copilot: "Look at me.....I am the captain now"

yea right - didn't they say that about excel and the calculator

@@rajeevdsamuel they also said that with fire lol Remember that one story with the Romans/Greece? xd So anything that is not accepted is bs to the rest I got called a werewolf for running c code and python via gpt4

Pray harder

There will always be a need for developers because software systems are so complex, and more importantly, the humans using them are even more complex and random in their behaviour. I can't see how a computer will deal with that 5,000th change needed because the customer suddenly changed their mind 1 day before shipping.

​@@karmatraining Why not?

@@karmatraining We will come back to this statement after AGI

​@@karmatrainingit's already perfectly capable of doing that. I've had gpt4 change complicated scripts from python to bash last minute because they required a different version of python than what I had in prod. I'd like to see you do that in 60 seconds.

you think you're getting promoted soon?

@@FrazerKirkman hes thinking hes becoming redundant

Sounds like you work for the wrong company then. Your leadership should view this as increasing productivity to allow more things to be built, not removing people to keep status quo 😅

@@ChumlyFernando Only so many roads to build though. Granted. Probably still gonna be a long time before non-devs can do the work of devs, even with copilot. The barrier to entry though just shot up again. Ugh.

@@connorskudlarek8598 that is very very unlikely to happen. programming even with ai needs someone who can understand what is happening

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Thanks so much! Some are better than others, but glad this one was helpful for people. We should have you on our livestream!

​@@BurkeHolland I'd love to join you :D

Yeah it was really neat to see actual examples. Makes me think of how I could actually use this in day to day tasks

lol gotem

LMAO this is soo true

"A lot of the time". The rest of the time it'll introduce harder to catch bugs because you didn't write it. That's a problem. And I'm certainly not installing packages or node versions on its say-so

​@@nickwoodward819*laughs in rust making bugs from copilot a rarity*

@@nickwoodward819- you can just ask co-pilot to find and fix the bugs. LOL. (suggestions from a guy (me) who hasn't yet used co-pilot).

@@nickwoodward819 How is it any different from the age-old way of copying code from Stack Overflow? The responsibility of understanding and verifying the integrity of the code you didn't write that you're importing into your project still lies with you.

It only takes one of those "magic moments" for Copilot to pay for itself. It's an absolutely remarkable technology when it works like that.

The amount of times I've fucked up my voice prompt, plus being in a room with 50 other devs doing the same thing is going to just suck balls!

Yeah, I am having this same issue. Pretty annoying considering how it's presented in the video as something much different... Like this was an upgrade from just searching file names & imports...

Great insight! It's a shame. One way around this would be for Copilot to, in the background, read through and describe each file one-by-one for itself in future requests, and automatically keep that more detailed "index page" updated. Let's see what happens!

Would be great to have issues filed with examples, if possible. @workspace combines search for file content, symbols, and file names; but depends on your natural language description for what to look for. /@digitarald

@@codeif only it did that. Every time I get it to try to analyze my codebase, I get "As an AI developed by OpenAI and GitHub, I don't have the ability to access or read files from your local workspace for privacy and security reasons. I can provide assistance based on the information provided in the conversation. If you have specific code snippets or error messages, feel free to share them and I'll do my best to help." Why do you have to lie to the people?

@@code Okay I will take you up on that & I appreciate that you are reaching out!

Yeah it's kinda interesting to think about the power of refactoring through prompting. Like the easy refractors would be changing the name or signature of a function. But could it be more complex like "update from Promise chaining pattern to async await" in JS? And then even more vague and broad like "refactor to use dependency injection"? And without any errors?

which plan do i need for copilot chat to br able to read the whole codebase?

Tried it today…all I got was “I don’t have access to the files and folders in your project”. I tried going to the root and sun folders, no luck. Doesn’t work, only works on the highlighted portion of the file I have open. Also, it picked 9 random files out of 1000s while it complained

Thank you!

I hope the chat feature will be available too

Sure, if you like pair programming with someone who makes shit up. It's a useful autocomplete , it's a stretch to call it pair programming

Well, the best thing is chatGPT lol. This is a side effect :P

Exactly what I was thinking. I've been using Cursor for a while now, but I still go back and forth with ChatGPT running in a browser since I feel like it gives me better answers, the context features in Cursor don't work all that well for me. Looks like I have to try regular VS Code with Copilot now.

Don't be fooled. The `@workspace` feature uses a client-side AI to guess (in my case, badly) what context to send to the server along with the request, whereas Cursor IDE seems to just send the entire project. With Cursor IDE I'm therefore able to use the full power of ChatGPT to implement a text based requirements document, whereas with Copilot Workspaces I'm not able to make any progress because the client-side AI chops my requirements doc up in a completely non-sensical way, such that ChatGPT can no longer work its magic. I get how this approach will allow GitHub Copilot to scale to any size of project, and I could imagine it might work better when chopping up bits of code to send to the back-end, but it would be nice if there was a way to mark certain parts of the project as mandatory context for all `@workspace` requests (e.g. coding conventions, or a design doc). Perhaps then I could see it removing the need for Cursor IDE, but certainly not before that.

Feels like Cursor was a driver for the improvement of VSCode+ Co-Pilot. I think I am going back to vscode, because it's a bit faster and co-pilot was super handy recent years. Great job!

​@@alex_skobedo these new copilot features really completely replace cursor?

looks like it still is codex

That's incredible. I feel the productivity boost as well. I also feel a lot more confident to tackle jobs I'm not 100% sure how to implement - like things that involve regex and complex data manipulation.

We should wait until it can do FE effectively

I was able to do a few cool things in a fairly large project right now, asking it where in the code a certain thing is handled and it'd give me a list of links that highlight the relevant code snippets and things. This video is overhyping a bit, but it really is very solid

Demos are contrived because they have to demonstrate the features. The real world is messy for sure. Copilot can help with that mess, but it's never going to make your life as smooth as that demo, unfortunately :).

wtf I am also coming from hbombs video :O

@@flopin9528 wtf! I just plagiarized! This is insane!

??? GPT has nothing to do with plagiarism.

@@robosergTV You can literally accidentally end up with a copyright claim on your software if you use generators to come up with code. It comes from a library of stolen content.

I think it's just a poor example for this tutorial

I've had to downgrade like 15 versions before lol. So sad working on super old stuff.

Same here. Not sure why it is the case