851: The Future of VS Code and Copilot
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Wes and Scott talk with Cassidy Williams and Harald Kirschner about exciting new features in VS Code and GitHub Copilot, including custom instructions, UI/UX improvements, and the future of AI and Copilot within different editors.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:32 Cassidy’s keynote at GitHub Universe
- 03:23 New Copilot features
- 04:55 Use cases for prompt engineering
- 09:20 UI and UX enhancements
- 19:18 Copilot Extensions
- 20:38 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 21:26 Multi-line suggestions?
- 27:00 How do you develop new ideas in this space?
- 35:42 Copilot in Xcode
- 39:16 VS Code experimental features
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. Here we are live today at, not live, this is not live, we're recording at GitHub Universe and we have two amazing guests on today. We just did an episode on some of the new site and stuff to VS code. And we've got Cassidy Williams and Harold Kirshner on today to answer some of our questions and talk about it. So welcome. Thanks so |
| 0:22.4 | much for coming on. Thanks for having us live. We're live in person. Live in person. This is really cool. |
| 0:28.2 | Live to tape. I've never really done this before, which is pretty nifty. You did the keynote, |
| 0:34.0 | which was wild. I saw you go up there and I was like, oh man. I know her. I know her. And like, were you been nervous? Like, which was wild. I saw you go up there and I was like, oh, man. I know her. |
| 0:38.5 | Yeah. I know her. And like, were you been nervous? Like, I was nervous. I was, I was hiding my panic. |
| 0:44.6 | Oh my. I was so worried the demo wouldn't work. Yeah. Because it was all, it was all a real |
| 0:50.8 | live demo and stuff. Or like, I had a backup video just in case things didn't work, |
| 0:54.5 | and I was just going to say, we're moving to it. |
| 0:56.4 | And the fact that it all worked, I was so happy. |
| 0:59.5 | It was because AI is non-deterministic. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:03.1 | And as I did so many rehearsals and run-throughs, |
| 1:07.2 | the results were different every single time. |
| 1:10.5 | And so I put in as many fail safes as I could. |
| 1:14.3 | And the team was like, well, what if you rearrange this, change the prompt this way and stuff? |
| 1:17.5 | And like, it came together at the end and I'm so happy that it went smoothly. |
| 1:22.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.5 | And Harold told me that there was somebody backstage doing the same thing in case they needed to cut over to it. Yeah, |
| 1:28.0 | they were like mimicking me on their laptop. So if we had to switch to a different laptop, |
| 1:32.4 | they could. Yeah. That's so smart. Like a triple backup system. Yeah. So we had the video. We had the |
| 1:36.8 | second laptop. We had me. And then a hope and a prayer. And I worked out. Was that the like, intensity you felt before going on stage before? |
| 1:47.8 | Because you've done a lot of stuff. |
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