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Harald

Conference affiliation: GitHub · 2024

Harald participated in an AI Engineer World’s Fair 2024 workshop. The workshop covered contextual coding assistance, browser-based development environments, and repository-grounded enterprise knowledge bases.

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A hands-on path through Copilot in VS Code, from supplying useful context and reviewing JavaScript suggestions to understanding model latency, extensions, and multistep development.

  • What does Copilot need to help you write code?
    0:30 ↗
  • From editor context to a suggestion
    3:07 ↗
  • Make the request—and its context—explicit
    7:21 ↗
  • Good names and concrete examples reduce ambiguity
    14:22 ↗
  • Prepare the workshop environment
    19:27 ↗
  • Find the right participant and open a JavaScript file
    29:33 ↗
  • Ghost text, inline edits, and conversation
    36:22 ↗
  • Accept only the part you want
    41:22 ↗
  • Generate a URL parser, then inspect the repair
    47:00 ↗
  • Explain code, reset context, and generate tests
    50:36 ↗
  • Model quality has to fit the interaction
    59:30 ↗
  • Extend chat without assuming full model replacement
    1:04:22 ↗
  • Updated knowledge and automatic delegation solve different problems
    1:07:24 ↗
  • From a reviewed suggestion to a reviewed plan
    1:13:33 ↗

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