Copilot: NPC or Main Character
summary
An examination of using GitHub Copilot for PHP development, outlining its advantages and disadvantages and comparing it to competing tools to explain why they may be better or worse than Microsoft’s product. The talk also addresses security concerns and gives company recommendations to prevent proprietary code from being exposed, while evaluating whether Copilot functions as a helpful assistant (NPC) or a central actor (main character).
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:10GitHub Copilot basics
- 6:30Writing Copilot prompts
- 10:14Copilot editor plugins
- 12:20Code comments matter
- 14:28Copilot with legacy code
- 17:22SQL and tests generation
- 21:51Copilot vs other AIs
- 24:07VS Code vs PHPStorm
- 28:53Choosing AI assistant
- 30:49Security and code review
- 31:53Copilot: main character?
- 33:00Q&A
- 38:48Team prompts setup
- 41:38Copilot performance
- 43:31Summary
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