GitHub Copilot just got exponentially smarter

GitHub Copilot just got a whole lot smarter! Ask questions about your ENTIRE project, speech-to-text support, auto-generated commit messages and more.
Full list of new features 👉 code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2...
00:00 - The current limitations of Large Langage Models (LLMs)
01:07 - The new workspace command that allows Copilot to search your entire project
02:21 - Inline chat, iteration and anticipation
03:16 - New #context commands
03:41 - Solving terminal errors with context
04:57 - Explore the VS Code Speech extension
05:39 - Automatic commit message creation
#ai #githubcopilot #vscode

[@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

[@catdevzsh]

@@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

[@rscottallinfo9080]

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[@rscottallinfo9080]

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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

[@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

[@lifeofvilla]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@marasoiua]

Thanks Burke! Awesome summary and really helpful!

[@mtnwildernessfamily]

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

[@davidh.5139]

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

[@jgrote]

Thanks Burke! This is a very sharable video.

[@r34ct4]

Was nice knowing y'all

[@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

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

[@BensDevJourney]

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

[@pavellegkodymov4295]

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

[@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

[@ab76254]

Awesome, really excited to try this 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!

[@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!

[@wes7bg]

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

[@waelgh4307]

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

[@NighthunterNyx]

Thank you guys. This is nice

[@ChrisTian-ox5nr]

this is awesome !! Thanks

[@alirezasheikh8797]

Very cool! Thank you!

[@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?

[@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

[@sqwert654]

Love my Copilot in Unity, huge time and typing saver

[@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...

[@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?

[@orufam]

wowowowo ! WOOOHHH! WOAAHH!! Thanks Copilot team!

[@roberto9369]

just wow.excelent news about copilot, video and explanations from the guy was on point

[@StefanMoises]

🤯🤯🤯 wooooow, great features!

[@johan-mattias]

Love the sparkles ✨

[@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

[@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

[@KarakiriCAE]

The way you said "That's.. NUTS!" 😂

[@doejones48]

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

[@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! 😮❤

[@Joe-SoftwareEngineer]

Are all these features available in Visual Studio 2022 as well?

[@megadebtification]

Great updates !!

[@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.

[@MMABeijing]

Very good video, thank you

[@br3nto]

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

[@jancijak9385]

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

[@reanukeaves]

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

[@andrewnormore7093]

Ohhh my goodness thank you dude.

[@czarny093]

looks great!

[@sandeepjakka8339]

Thanks, are these features available on IntelliJ or only vscode?

[@danatttack]

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

[@ID3CR]

Best time to subscribe 😂❤

[@nicholasbell6128]

wow things are getting better so quickly

[@carneios08]

The commit message feature is amazing!

[@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

[@andreteixeiralopes]

Is the 'workspace' keywork also available on Visual Studio Community, or only on VS Code?

[@jarrayamehdi6566]

Amazing !

[@filippalexandrov1554]

The voice feature is so dope!!!

[@KosherCoder]

This is fantastic!

[@amischreiber4722]

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

[@khalidelgazzar]

This is getting crazier everyday!😮

[@corneromme]

Super awesome! However, even though all my extensions seem up-to-date, when I type @workspace, nothing happens. Is there a way I should enable these new features like agents first?

[@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.

[@aamin89]

This is more than awesome 🎉❤

[@MonteChan]

For the Copilot Chat, I can enter non-English text and Copilot Chat would return the responses in the non-English language that i use. However, the VS Code Speech extension only works if I were to speak in English. My question is, when will VS Code Speech work with non-English languages please?

[@Lensbreak]

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

[@dhaloi]

just after i bought the copilot? Neat!

[@Cordis2Die]

Very coll stuff!

[@BSDrumming]

Is this available on Visual Studio with GitHub’s enterprise copilot?

[@yohandahmani9329]

These new features are available only in VSCode or other IDEs as well (that have the copilot extension already) ?

[@yemreak.]

AMAZING 🚀

[@andreasWebDev]

Amazing 🤩

[@eckhartbroly]

absolutely awesome

[@LukeBarousse]

We can finally search an entire project with chat 🤯

[@erik-fisher]

You got me with the automated commit descriptions.

[@occo5877]

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

[@keeganlawton3442]

Do all co-pilot subscriptions come with the new features?

[@user-gg8we2ot4b]

Super!

[@eidiazcas]

How do you do the selection and compare suggestions thing at 2:39 ? I can't find documentation about it

[@jagadeeshgade6309]

It would be useful to add figma design to code. I have been using since its preview absolutely ❤ it.

[@pedrosantos4368]

AWESOME!

[@mtsurov]

Banger !

[@user-ld3gf8of3h]

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

[@editin232]

Is that available in copilot individual plan?

[@erroneousbosch]

Nice! Is this all coming to the JetBrains plugin too?

[@riot121212]

is this for microsft visual studio as well?

[@iamjimgroth]

This is exactly what I was going copilot could give me. I was sad when I found it it couldn't deliver this. That was last weekend. 🙂

[@foilhat]

Just yesterday I was working on some buggy debouncer for CRUD functions (in Swift, but not for iOS). I just left my cursor for a minute, reading code, looking what’s wrong. And out of nowhere Copilot just offered me to insert print(“The End”). I think I’ll take a break from it. For now.

[@younesch1998]

I did not get the updated copilot version, is it globally. available ?

[@bastig.9415]

Will this update be available for the free students version aswell? It seems that somehow my copilot is still running without these updates. Do i have to update the vs code extension manually?

[@Axelius69]

Is this update live also for Visual studio 2022?

[@Samuel-bd1ms]

Is this feature also in visual studio?

[@clementbaudonnel9475]

Are those features available in Visual Studio 2022 ?

[@Carl-ps4hh]

Does anyone know if these features will be available for visual studio as well?😁

[@tommyboi0]

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

[@bobmonsour]

Mind sufficiently blown!

[@karmatraining]

This is awesome

[@MichelCDiz]

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