GitHub Copilot just got exponentially smarter

[@davidh.5139]

This guy does a good job presenting, do more with him for sure.

[@Daysra]

he's excellent. I agree.

[@baylorc4904]

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

[@RichardHartnell]

@@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)

[@karmatraining]

Agreed

[@ibendover4817]

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.

[@codinginflow]

We are in this sweet spot right now where Copilot makes our dev jobs much less tedious while at the same time leaving enough creativity and skill for us as human developers. I hope it stay like that for a while 😃.

[@Dr.Trustmeonthisone]

Pray harder

[@karmatraining]

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.

[@codinginflow]

​@@karmatraining Why not?

[@cosmopolitanape6969]

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

[@sCiphre]

​@@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.

[@Lewdiculous]

It's only a matter of time "...until the Copilot becomes the Captain".

[@BurkeHolland]

😂😂

[@ibendover4817]

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

[@rajeevdsamuel]

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

[@catsanzsh]

@@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

[@denismaslovskiy6130]

It seems these updates bring the call with HR even closer

[@FrazerKirkman]

you think you're getting promoted soon?

[@denizdursun3353]

@@FrazerKirkman hes thinking hes becoming redundant

[@ChumlyFernando]

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 😅

[@connorskudlarek8598]

@@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.

[@denizdursun3353]

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

[@DevLeonardo]

Great summary Burke! Loved the "storytelling" approach rather than just listing the features. It's much easier to follow and gives even more insight on how useful these new features are!
(I should try this approach in my videos too 🤔)
Ah right, also well done to the Copilot and vscode teams for delivering all of this :D

[@rscottallinfo9080ff]

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[@BurkeHolland]

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

[@DevLeonardo]

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

[@samhblackmore]

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

[@mlock1000]

"That's nuts!" I must admit I said the exact same thing a couple of times recently when copilot was on a roll. It is truly amazing. I find myself writing whole chunks of code with everything as I want it (in my style!) just using one or two characters, often none, and a whole lot of tab, tab, tab.
My new favourite trick is write a comment for what the next function should do and hit tab/enter. It writes a complete and perfect one a lot of the time, sometimes even finishing the comment correctly before I'm done!

[@nickwoodward819]

"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

[@thegoldenatlas753]

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

[@cresentmoonyt]

@@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).

[@exactzero]

@@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.

[@BurkeHolland]

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.

[@alexp-ru]

As a programmer, I gotta say that trying to remember the color of the FB button takes up 92.75% of my coding time :)

[@seannewell397]

lol gotem

[@Zackrevoluzion]

LMAO this is soo true

[@DodaGarcia]

Having the context of the full project while working with GitHub Copilot has long been my most wanted feature! Refactoring is a huge part of maintaining large projects and the constant tracing of function calls can get incredibly tedious. Should become a lot easier now if Copilot can search the entire codebase for the different files where the pieces of the feature being refactored are located.

[@samhblackmore]

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?

[@Lensbreak]

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

[@CaribSurfKing1]

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

[@r34ct4]

Was nice knowing y'all

[@crackwitz]

I'd like it to suggest changes that I don't prompt it for... Like, I change one thing somewhere and it suggests what else needs changing to keep the code consistent.
Or it notices issues with the code that could be done better.

[@severedghost]

I love that it replaces pretty much nothing of what I was already doing, but cuts out all of the tedious lookup time it takes to do it.

[@codinginflow]

This is amazing. This makes the Cursor IDE obsolete. Not a day goes by where I'm not in awe at how much Copilot improves my dev experience. The best thing that happened in the last decade.

[@danvilela]

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

[@technicolourmyles]

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.

[@footube3]

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.

[@alex_skobe]

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!

[@yorgohoebeke]

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

[@depaultm]

The @workspace feature is amazing. After some testing, I realized it relies a lot on the file names and imports, and not on the content of the files. It gets confuse very easily and will tell you a lot of false statements about a file's functionality without even reading a file.

[@DynamiqTechnologies]

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...

[@fritiof1995]

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!

[@code]

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

[@u4yk]

@@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?

[@DynamiqTechnologies]

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

[@rogerthao588]

After watching this video, I literally said out loud, "This is freakin' amazing!" You presented the Copilot capabilities in a clear manner and seeing it in action was awesome.

[@BurkeHolland]

Thank you!

[@user-dk8sd4mn9b]

It's really impressive. Even so, I wouldn't consider going back from node 18 to node 10 a feasible solution in most of the cases...

[@wladefant]

Very nice summary of all the new features, and the vscode speech is cool too. I am using and we need some improvements to it, specifically a more natural interaction with it

[@encoder6717]

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!

[@BensDevJourney]

Nice updates to VSCode! I especially love the commit message stuff, I am notorious for writing 'fix bug'

[@meyham9179]

Since buying copilot I get my coding work done in 2 hrs and it gives me time to think about the system holistically and we have starting doing so much more. Not getting paid for his just wanted to share I love it

[@BurkeHolland]

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.

[@doejones48]

Wow, this looks awesome! But are those features available for "Copilot Business" only, or also for "Copilot Individual"?

[@lifeofvilla]

This is a great addition, I had to do everything piece by piece before. Thankful to the team for adding this!

[@tomashubelbauer]

Did it really just ask you to downgrade Node from 18 to 10? Is this a super old project or is that a suggestion it might give with a new project as well? Because if so, that is not useful.

[@GPT-X938]

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

[@Human_Evolution-]

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

[@AdroSlice]

It's insane how fitting it is that this video pops up in my recommendations right after I finished hbomberguys video on plagiarism. The machine is self-aware.

[@IntensiverPinguin]

wtf I am also coming from hbombs video :O

[@ontheruntonowhere]

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

[@robosergTV]

??? GPT has nothing to do with plagiarism.

[@JordanCorkins]

@@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.

[@jpet11]

Cursor has had this for 6 months and its way better 😂

[@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

Beautiful, this is the type of amazing thing I hope to see implemented industry-wide this decade.

[@sergioccarneiro]

Doesn't really work like that in real-world projects, but it's definitely some nice advancements in the right direction

[@normalmighty]

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

[@BurkeHolland]

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 :).

[@freiherrvonundzu]

can't wait for it to become smart enough to also take db structure, and changes that have to be done to implement a feature, into account.

[@nickwoodward819]

We should wait until it can do FE effectively

[@user-ld3gf8of3h]

The #file command for searching in a file isn't working as of today.

[@chromakode]

Downgrading Node to v10 without understanding the security implications is a terrible takeaway. These are amazing tools and it's a tough balance to strike. I'm disappointed that this video frames it as devs not having to learn or think about their choices as much.

[@waelgh4307]

Cool to see Vue as a practical framework in the front end, also the commit message is nice to see

[@mihaelacostea5783]

yeah, right..."I'm sorry for any confusion, but as an AI, I don't have the ability to access or search your local workspace or files. I can only provide assistance based on the information or code snippets you provide directly in our conversation."

[@davidh.5139]

This is what I've been wanting since starting to use co pilot. Can't wait to try it out!

[@orufam]

wowowowo ! WOOOHHH! WOAAHH!! Thanks Copilot team!

[@garybarrett4881]

4:29 But as well as the VSCode Speech extension there is also an official GitHub extension named "GitHub Copilot Voice" - which seems to do the same thing? Which should we use and what is the difference between them?

[@foobars3816]

Unfortunately the automated commit messages are an anti pattern, because it doesn't know why the commits are being made. That is the only thing that really matters in a commit message as it is the thing that tells you the reason behind the commit and if the change was sensible or can be improved. The part that copilot adds is only what can be deduced from the diff so it is repeating the unimportant part.
However the rest is absolutely fantastic.

[@Norfeldt]

Nice to hear that it will have more project awareness and uses gpt4 by default 👏 just hoping that it would be possible to give it some instructions on how to act and reply.

[@YashSinghal]

looks like it still is codex

[@reanukeaves]

The commit and PR summary are the best part of all of this. I hate doing those

[@paulmcnally4994]

This is an amazing feature for a new coder - and helps to quickly understand the entire codebase. I was using chat gpt , but this blows it out of the water! 😮❤

[@wes7bg]

This is just amazing, please keep evolving this tool.
I'm ready to pay whatever is needed for it.

[@snk-js]

he did not get smart he just got his surveillance improved

[@KarakiriCAE]

The way you said "That's.. NUTS!" 😂

[@Daysra]

I call the Copilot icon the Subaru icon.

[@VishnuPadmanabhan]

This is absolutely amazing. With speech capabilities, it is proper pair programming!

[@nickwoodward819]

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

[@khalidelgazzar]

This is getting crazier everyday!😮

[@StefanMoises]

🤯🤯🤯 wooooow, great features!

[@LukeBarousse]

We can finally search an entire project with chat 🤯

[@Lensbreak]

Which Copilot Chat Subscription is needed for the feature to read the whole workspace/codebase and chat with it?

[@Amaterasoo]

that bgm really made me thought that there were short-circuits on my pc.

[@jancijak9385]

Continue plugin for VS code has this for long time. It allows also local language models, or others that are on the web.

[@CodeMasquey]

Wonderful video, I hope the last extension (VS code speech) will be available for Visual studio 2022

[@PromptModeller]

I hope the chat feature will be available too

[@pavellegkodymov4295]

great, thank you! Have learned the @workspace command from your video, at it's such a huge game changer!

[@DreamingConcepts]

I think we're getting closer and closer to the part-time as a standard.

[@PeterNeave]

No - you still have to work full time but now you are expected to produce more. Nothing has changed since the invention of the washing machine, dish washer, mobile phone or cars to give us more time off - why should it start now?

[@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

@@PeterNeave Finally someone who isnt a moron. Thank you. Companies will expect more jira tickets to be complete.

[@DreamingConcepts]

@@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle i think it matter what people expect from companies too, i.e. less jira tickets, 2 days work per week.. after all companies need people to do their work to keep going, not the people.

[@marasoiua]

Thanks Burke! Awesome summary and really helpful!

[@mtnwildernessfamily]

Mind blowing amazing. Tried it out in the last couple of hours. Very impressed.

[@piotrrodzen772]

Finally looks like github copilot is worth using

[@giggler-w5n]

if only i could use it in VScodium

[@jgrote]

Thanks Burke! This is a very sharable video.

[@filippalexandrov1554]

The voice feature is so dope!!!

[@amischreiber4722]

Great video! Unfortunately the CoPilot speech is waitlisted. :(

[@br3nto]

Can we do this in Visual Studio too or is it just in VS Code?

[@nicholasbell6128]

wow things are getting better so quickly

[@allansmith350]

Avid copilot user, limited git user but letting ai generate the PR notes will omit what you should probably write for (tomorrow/next week) yourself. Suggest a personal append / prepend so you can reference what may jog in your memory

[@user-ui4yf7pr9q]

I tried #file in the GitHub Copilot Chat and it does not appear to be released yet

[@carneios08]

The commit message feature is amazing!

[@ab76254]

Awesome, really excited to try this out!

[@STEELO-247]

This doesn't work with react applications:
"I'm sorry, I can't answer that question with what I currently know about your workspace. In a typical React and TypeScript project, login functionality could be handled in a variety of places such as a Login component, a useAuth custom hook, or a context provider like AuthContext. Please provide more specific details or code snippets from your project."

[@LeekowalskiWalker]

Thanks for sharing that

[@KenVillines]

I have the latest VS Code and Copilot plugins. The @workspace seems to only reference a single open file instead of the workspace. Copilot Chat just keeps telling me it doesn't have access to the full content of my workspace.
It also will only explain selected code but if too much is selected it can't handle it.

[@megadebtification]

Great updates !!

[@oddikaro8236]

Fuck. This is the real game changing. The IA working with your own code locally.

[@NighthunterNyx]

Thank you guys. This is nice

[@occo5877]

Wow!!! Going to try it Asap! One thing I’m curious, how the workspace command overcomes the token limitation ?

[@lorinatzberger3624]

Any chance to get these improvements on Rider? Using VSCode with Unity is a huge step down as the debugger is full of bugs and so many features are missing.

[@MichelCDiz]

O loved the feature of commit messages! I'll never worry about this EVER! Thank you microsoft.

[@alirezasheikh8797]

Very cool! Thank you!

[@loc7s]

I mean I’m excited about this but dang it makes me think that we will forget or not learn as we once did. Maybe that’s ok and that’s just the nature if advancement. I just hope that employers will not hold the same standards for hiring

[@FrankyDeMeyer]

It’ll just make us more stupid. One of my purposes in life is to grow and learn. Not helpful with some tool that suggests me to downgrade node just to get one thing solved 🙄

[@LeekowalskiWalker]

Can you write in binary? No. Did you make all the furniture in your home? No. Do you hunt your dinner? No. Its no different than that.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

@@FrankyDeMeyer Downgrading Node has helped me a number of times when working on legacy projects. I haven't found Copilot to be amazing aside from predicting code and thus saving keystrokes, but ChatGPT saves me literal hours each day and I feel smart for using it.

[@bobmonsour]

Mind sufficiently blown!

[@erik-fisher]

You got me with the automated commit descriptions.

[@ashishjha9262]

Lol, the Commit message should be in the present tense. I would raise a nit comment on your PR😂

[@mrnevermind]

🎉 so awesome! But who else gasped when node 10 came up … lol

[@aibarra11]

those terminal suggestions are a game changer. i'm not really a nodejs dev, but run into it everyone once in a while. i hate npm errors. its such a rabbit hole

[@Norfeldt]

I don't see the `#file` feature - is this only in the pre-release version?

[@Adam-nw1vy]

This. Blew. My. Effing. Mind

[@user-qz7oj6sv5v]

I can't use the #file: command in the CoPilot chat. I even tried to switch to the pre-release versions but that does not work either. I'm using the latest version of VS Code as well. What am I doing wrong?

[@mubin-ansari]

Same here. Not sure why it is the case

[@johan-mattias]

Love the sparkles ✨

[@XIIOSRS]

Love these changes. Can we make it more intuitive to refactor large amounts of code? It’d be good to see it token merge behind the scenes, then output a coherent response.

[@Cordis2Die]

Very coll stuff!

[@danatttack]

Amazing! When are we getting this for Visual Studio? 😅

[@jarrayamehdi6566]

Amazing !

[@Oliver_Saer]

"It knows what colour to make that Facebook button"
But it chose the old logo colour. Nice one, Copilot.

[@brandontx]

This is absolutely insane

[@user-rc3fx9vx3t]

You can tell that some madman of a product manager shouted "ADD AI EVERYWHERE NOW!!!" so they added the chat to the left, to the search bar, an inline chat and a chat in a terminal. Oh, and in a commit message. This is rediculous.

[@justdavebz]

Is #file: available now? I dont seem to get that option

[@sqwert654]

Love my Copilot in Unity, huge time and typing saver

[@iamfinky]

Oh my god. This is BONKERS. The one thing I'm curious about is: HOW does the workspace bit work? Is it sending my local code to the LLM?

[@code]

It depends - if your project is in GItHub, it's indexed there. If it's not, we do it locally and use that index.

[@iamfinky]

@@code Thanks for the reply! Do you have any public docs on how the AI is able to interpret local code?

[@unhandledexception1948]

@workspace is a mind blowing new feature ;-) 😊

[@user-gg8we2ot4b]

Super!

Its all really cool and quite a lot of actually useful things, except of course the atrociously bad commit message you called good :P

[@tommyboi0]

Thank you for making this! Side note, consider a higher quality webcam lol

[@kmaphane]

Okay, where is the life time subscription option for Github Copilot? I am all in

[@LucasFonsecaMartins]

Can’t wait for copilot to apply for jobs and go to interviews for me

[@alexanderpoplawski577]

If it gets the job, it will also get the salary.☹

[@Nik-rx9rj]

I'm sure ChatGPT could punch together a cover letter and a resume at this point. Couple that with a skilled programming AI, and you get job displacement :(

[@shrix]

I directly queried the Copilot just now, and it responded ...
I'm based on OpenAI's GPT-3 model. GPT-3, or Generative Pretrained Transformer 3, is a state-of-the-art autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It's the third iteration of the GPT series and has 175 billion machine learning parameters. GPT-3 has been trained on a diverse range of internet text, but it doesn't know specifics about which documents were part of its training set or have access to any personal data unless explicitly provided during the conversation.

[@shrix]

I always keep it up to date. How can I get the release that's mentioned in this video?

[@codiumyt]

same here