Exploring Gen AI: Copilot's new multi-file editing
A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from small, localized suggestions to larger implementations across multiple files. Birgitta Böckeler tries out this new capability and finds out how useful its changes tend to be, and wonders about what feedback loops are needed with them. more…
A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from small, localized suggestions to larger implementations across multiple files. Birgitta Böckeler tries out this new capability and finds out how useful its changes tend to be, and wonders about what feedback loops are needed with them.