Introduction

So far, you’ve been using the knowledge you were taught at the beginning of the book about GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. This foundational knowledge was enough to teach you how to write prompts and accept them. It was also enough to let you start work on creating solutions for machine learning, data science, and web development. In the case of web development, you also discovered Copilot is an efficient tool when working with existing code bases. In this chapter, we want to take your AI tool knowledge to the next level, as there are more features that you may want to leverage.

There are a lot of things that can be done to increase efficiency; you will see later in the chapter how there are features within Copilot that let you scaffold files, and you will learn more about your workspace and even Visual Studio Code as an editor, which are all time-saving features. This chapter will cover some of the most important features.

In this chapter, we will:

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