Visual Studio Code’s Matt Soucoup showcases creative prompt-driven development using GitHub Copilot, illustrating new ways developers can build and iterate with AI beyond traditional code generation.

Prompting for More Than Code with GitHub Copilot

Overview

In this video, Matt Soucoup demonstrates how GitHub Copilot can be used beyond its traditional code-centric features. The discussion walks through leveraging Copilot and Visual Studio Code in innovative ways, such as meal and event planning, and emphasizes the potential for developers to use Copilot for a broad spectrum of creative tasks.

Chapters

  • 00:00 Introduction – Get creative with Copilot and step outside the usual coding scenarios.
  • 00:35 Demo: Exploring a Recipe App – See Copilot in action answering questions about a set of recipes and assisting with planning a full dinner party.
  • 04:45 Meal Planning with Copilot – Discover a demo of using prompts to iterate with Copilot for practical meal planning.
  • 10:03 Review: Creating with Copilot – Reflection on the creative process and how Copilot adapts through iterative prompting.
  • 11:40 Wrap – Summary and key takeaways from the session.

Key Topics

  • Prompt-Driven Development: Learn how to direct Copilot with conversational prompts, not just code generation requests.
  • Creative Use Cases: Examples include recipe Q&A, meal planning, and brainstorming solutions, underscoring Copilot’s versatility.
  • Iterative AI Interactions: Explore techniques for refining prompts to get improved, context-aware responses from Copilot.
  • Developer Productivity: See how using Copilot creatively can accelerate ideation and application building.

Matt Soucoup
Twitter/X: @codemillmatt

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Conclusion

This session highlights the growing scope of AI-assisted development, showing developers how Copilot’s prompt-driven features go beyond code to support creativity and diverse problem solving within Visual Studio Code.