Copilot Beyond the Basics

Presentatie gegeven tijdens devCampNoord '24 in Kinepolis Groningen.

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2. THIJS LIMMEN GITHUB COPILOT BEYOND THE BASICS 10 WAYS TO ELEVATE YOUR CODING YULIYA KHADASEVICH
3. GITHUB COPILOT
4. 1 GITHUB COPILOT AI PAIR PROGRAMMER Visual Studio Visual Studio Code Vim/Neovim Jet Brains
5. 2 GITHUB COPILOT LICENSES Business $19 per user / month Individual $10 per user / month * Requires GitHub Enterprise Cloud. ** Currently in preview. (available in 2024) Enterprise $39 per user / month
6. 3 GITHUB COPILOT HOW DOES IT WORK GitHub-owned Azure tenant OpenAI LLM Suggestions Proxy service HTTPS Context v Authenticate v Sanitize (remove PII, secrets) v Sentiment analysis (abusive language, etc.) v Security filter v Sentiment analysis v Optional OSS Duplicate detection
7. 4 GITHUB COPILOT GPT Generative Pre-trained Transformer (type of LLM) Developed by OpenAI GPT-4 Ø GitHub Copilot Chat Ø 10X Powerful Ø Accurate GPT-3.5 Ø GitHub Copilot Completions Ø Fast Ø Cheap(er)
8. 10 WAYS
9. 1 10 WAYS COPILOT CORE
10. 1 DEMO
11. 2 10 WAYS IMPROVE CODE
12. 2 10 WAYS • IMPROVE CODE @AGENTS FOR SCOPE @workspace Navigate code in workspace by finding relevant files or classes. @terminal Assistance with how to run terminal commands @vscode Assistance with commands and features in the VS Code editor itself.
13. 2 10 WAYS • IMPROVE CODE /SLASH COMMANDS /explain Explain code /tests Create unit tests /fix Propose a fix for problems in the selected code /new Scaffold a new project /help Get help on Copilot chat
14. 2 10 WAYS • IMPROVE CODE #HASHTAG COMMANDS #file Specific File #codebase Search through the open codebase #selection Selected Code #terminalSelection Selected Text in Terminal #editor “Visible“ Source Code #git Git context
15. 2 DEMO
16. 3 10 WAYS PROMPT ENGINEERING
17. 3 10 WAYS • PROMPT ENGINEERING PROMPT ENGINEERING The process of crafting questions or instructions for AI, aimed at enhancing the quality of its responses
18. 3 10 WAYS • PROMPT ENGINEERING BASIC TECHNIQUES Zero-shot prompting One-shot and Few-shot prompting
19. 3 DEMO
20. TESTING
21. 4 10 WAYS UNIT TESTING
22. 4 10 WAYS UNIT TESTING GitHub Copilot's design excels at handling smaller code segments to maintain full context Unit Tests Integration Tests More Isolation More Integration Acceptance Tests
23. 4 DEMO
24. 5 10 WAYS ACCEPTANCE TESTING
25. 5 10 WAYS ACCEPTANCE TESTING Unit Tests Integration Tests Acceptance Tests More Isolation More Integration
26. 5 10 WAYS • ACCEPTANCE TESTING Behaviour Driven Development Testing Tool for .NET applications Given, When, Then BDD Gherkin Language
27. 5 DEMO
28. 6 10 WAYS TROUBLESHOOTING
29. 6 10 WAYS TROUBLESHOOTING GitHub Copilot is useful for debugging and troubleshooting: • Exception explanation • Code analysis • Suggesting fixes • Code refactoring • Code documentation • Helps with automated testing
30. 6 DEMO
31. VISUALIZATION
32. 7 10 WAYS LOADING …
33. 7 10 WAYS LOADING … -WHAT TO PUT HERE?
34. 7 DEMO
35. 8 10 WAYS UI / UX
36. 8 10 WAYS UI / UX -WHAT TO PUT HERE?
37. 8 DEMO
38. 9 10 WAYS UI TESTS
39. 9 10 WAYS UI TESTS -WHAT TO PUT HERE?
40. 9 DEMO
41. ADVANCED
42. 10 10 WAYS CHAIN OF THOUGHT
43. 10 10 WAYS CHAIN OF THOUGHT Enables Complex Reasoning capabilities through Intermediate Reasoning steps to get Better Results on complex tasks
44. 10 10 WAYS • CHAIN OF THOUGHT AEROBATICS SEQUENCE SIGNATURE (FICTIONAL)
45. 10 10 WAYS • CHAIN OF THOUGHT CALCULATE DIFFICULTY
46. 10 10 WAYS • CHAIN OF THOUGHT CHAIN OF THOUGHT REASONING
50. FINAL THOUGHTS
51. X Do’s Ø Set clear goals Ø Provide detailed instructions Ø Refine through feedback Ø Use for creativity and exploration Ø Make flight hours by using the tool Don’ts Ø Rely blindly; verify Ø Expect instant perfection FINAL THOUGHTS FINAL THOUGHTS
52. X GitHubNext: https://githubnext.com FINAL THOUGHTS USEFUL LINKS More prompt engineering techniques: https://www.promptingguide.ai Github samples and slides: https://github.com/ThijSlim/devnetnoord-github-copilot-beyond-basics