851: The Future of VS Code and Copilot

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?
  • GitHub Next
• 35:42 Copilot in Xcode
  • GitHub Copilot code completion in Xcode is now available in public preview
• 39:16 VS Code experimental features
  • @code

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