🤔 What is GitHub Copilot ?

According to Wikipedia,

"GitHub Copilot is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments by autocompleting code"

📈 AI’s impact on DX (Developer eXperience)

Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience | The GitHub Blog

We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about developer productivity, collaboration, and AI.

github.blog

🎯 About

Since we have recently subscribed to GH Copilot at opt-nc, I rapidly saw that during onboarding process, we had two kind of programmers:

• 🤓 The one who were already using it (and paid it for personal usage)
• 👶 The one who did not really know what to expect from GH Copilot

💭 As the onboarding is a never-ending process (temporary project newcomers, turnover, etc...), I found interesting to get some content to welcome newcomers.

One of the easiest thing is to prepare some ready to use content.

This is what this article is about : a set of video resources with fine shortcuts.

👶 Getting started with GitHub Copilot

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🦾 Discover GitHub Copilot

1. Discover Gh Copilot : settings
2. How it works
3. Ask for more suggestions (Ctrl+ENTER)
4. Force GH Copilot to get a hint (the \ option)
5. Navigate through completions
6. Partial hinting (inline hints editing)
7. Create Unit tests
8. Chat with Copilot (as an assistant, Q&A) with GH Copilot Chat (Side Window)
9. The chat window
10. Ask questions about particular parts of the code
11. Create a full project from a single PROMPT

⌨️ GH Copilot CLI

GH Copilot CLI is...

• GH Copilot preview (waitlist consideration)
• GH Copilot CLI setup (npm)
• git commands with git?
• Better cli interop with GH Services witht he gh? command (list PRs, list gists and fzf) :
• General help for cli with ??

Very practical introduction:

GitHub Copilot CLI: First Look

With natural language processing and contextual awareness, GitHub Copilot CLI can translate your requests into shell commands, Git commands, or GitHub CLI commands, allowing you to bypass the need for memorizing arcane commands and flags.

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👩‍🚀 GitHub Copilot X (openai/GPT-4)

The most exciting feature (my own opinion) is GH Copilot for Pull Requests:

GitHub Next | Copilot for Pull Requests

GitHub Next Project: Pull requests are a central part of the GitHub user experience. Copilot for PRs brings the power of Copilot to the PR experience, to help you write better PR descriptions, and to help your team review and merge PRs faster.

githubnext.com

That said, here are some bookmark for:

• Context conversations
• (Copilot for) Docs
• BY FAR My favorite one : GH for Pull Requests
• Resolving issues (I mean...literaly "Hey Copilot, do this for me") with AI
• Reviewing PRs with AI
• AI PR completion
• GH next : Copilot for Docs
• Code Brushes (Code formating, buggy snippets,...)
• GH Copilot Labs

🔭 Even further w/ GH Next

Although it is not really dedicated to GH Copilot, you probably take a glance at this page:

GitHub Next

GitHub Next investigates the future of software development

githubnext.com

and discover GH Blocks:

🎀 Outro

That's all folks. Hopefully you'll found this post useful... and helped you jump start in your GH Copilot journey 😊.