Prompting with Copilot

Seems the next skill as developers is to learn how to use AI tools. Done!

Mam when is the copilot x getting released?

Is there subscription plan for educational institute ?

I feel the lack of languages, but as many, open the files base that I need to use, give copilot a good context, buuut... it take a bit of time to copilot get what you are trying to do. I talking about PHP by the way.
Hope some day this could improve.

Excellent presentation

What famous scientist lady is in the middle portrait behind you? Is it Jocelyn Bell?

Great, thank you.

In my case something I have been doing is writing examples of the input and outputs expected of a method/function as comments (part of the function documentation). Copilot picks it up and generates a method that works many times. And the method is then well documented as well, as a bonus.

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For small one-off scripts like this Copilot works. For real projects though there needs to be proper information what Copilot understood about that project and which files it has processed to gain that information. We have lots of configuration files for e.g. linters as well as naming standards, plenty of additional rules for the structure of code, comments etc. (which can't be defined in a configuration file but have separate tests). It's completely unclear if Copilot understands any of that, sometimes I get good suggestions while working in a file, in many cases the code though is really subpar (too basic, too different etc.).

Why not chat with Copilot on initialization in a project to give it more context? If it is unsure about something (e.g. naming of variables, methods etc. in the project), Copilot could just ask the user and then present it's understanding in a tab or rather a new configuration file which could be synced to other devs.

Does this trick with having other files opened to provide additional context works in Visual Studio? (not VS Code)

I have tried the copilot with vscode insider best thing to ever happen to me

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From trial and error I had suspected that having particular files open would help with context. I was also directly prompting (both in the chat window and inline comment) "use the open file ..." but nice to see I don't have to directly specify that. Thanks for the examples and straightforward presentation.

I always keep too many tabs open!! I'm already getting better results after closing some files. Thanks!