GitHub Copilot now features instant semantic code search indexing, dramatically reducing the time it takes for Copilot to understand and reference your codebase, making development workflows more efficient.
This blog post introduces the Semantic Telemetry project at Microsoft Research, which uses a data science approach to analyze how people interact with AI systems, specifically focusing on Copilot in Bing usage. It discusses the complexity of human-AI interactions and how they differ from traditional search.
- Topics: Copilot in Bing chats were analyzed for topic categorization. Technology (21%) was the most common topic, followed by Entertainment (12.8%), Health (11%), and others. Within technology, programming and scripting were prominent subtopics.
- Platform Differences: Mobile users tend to use Copilot for personal tasks, while desktop users engage in more professional activities.
GitHub Copilot Extensions allow developers to use natural language to query documentation, generate code, retrieve data, and execute actions on external services without leaving their IDEs. They support public extensions from companies like Docker, MongoDB, Sentry, and allow developers to create their own extensions for internal libraries or APIs.
Augment Code is an AI coding assistant aimed specifically at professional software engineers and large codebases, offering features like project summaries, code improvements, and real-time code completions. It is designed to enhance productivity by understanding the context and style of your project, providing useful suggestions and improvements.
Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at the SWE agent codenamed Project Padawan.
A tutorial to set up a local, open-source virtual assistant and a code assist feature similar to Copilot using Ollama, Llama3, Continue, and Open WebUI.
Improve GitHub Copilot Chat responses by indexing repositories for semantic code search, allowing better context-based answers to questions about code within a repository.
GitHub Copilot now offers text completion for pull request descriptions. This beta feature helps developers write more effective descriptions by suggesting completions based on context.
A recent TechRadar poll found that Grammarly has emerged as a surprise hit among AI tools, with 584 monthly users. ChatGPT remains the most popular tool, while Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini also showed strong results.
This post highlights how the GitHub Copilot Chat VS Code Extension was vulnerable to data exfiltration via prompt injection when analyzing untrusted source code.
