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I'm not sure how many people are like me, but my attempts to use Copilot have largely been the context of writing code as usual, occasionally getting end-of-line or handful-of-lines completions from it. I suspect there's probably a bigger shift needed, but I haven't seen anyone (besides AI "influencers" I don't trust..?) showing what their day-to-day workflows look like.

Is there a Vimcasts equivalent for learning the AI editor tips and tricks?




Have you tried the chat mode?

The autocomplete is somewhere between annoying and underwhelming for me, but the chat is super useful. Being able to just describe what you're thinking or what you're trying to do and having a bespoke code sample just show up (based on the code in your editor) that you can then either copy/paste in, cherry-pick from or just get inspired by, has been a great productivity booster..

Treat it like a pair programmer or a rubber duck and you might have a better experience. I did!


Yeah using a chat interface




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