AI Coding

• Sign up to co-pilot

• Install VS Code

• Install the co-pilot plugin

• Authenticate

• Inline Chat

• LLMs - Large Language Models

  • autocomplete

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  • context
  • tokens
    • a word
    • part of a word
    • a single letter
  • limitations
    • No real intelligence just patterns and probabilities
    • Hallucinations

• prompts, prompt engineering

  • clear and precise
  • provides context
  • iterated and refined

• Ask only one thing in every prompt.

• In the chat window ask for some code and show the various buttons.

• TBD: How to pick the model?

• Explain the @ commands and the / commands

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