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Generative AI again takes center stage in the latest edition of Microsoft’s open source-based Visual Studio Code editor, which advanced to version 1.8.0 in the June 2023 update. A highlight of the release is the ability to use the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant to quickly scaffold projects and notebooks.
Microsoft this week unveiled cutting-edge AI tech in preview for Copilot, specifically the Chat mode that’s available only via a waitlist.
As recently detailed in the article, “Accepted for GitHub Copilot Chat? How to Get Started and What You Can Do,” developers can use Chat to issue various slash commands, like:
In this week’s announcement, the dev team introduced preview-only slash commands in the Chat view to create projects and notebooks and search for text in a workspace:
Note that devs need to use an Insiders build and configure some setting to access the preview functionality, along with installing the Pre-Release version of the GitHub Copilot extension — all after getting accepted from the waitlist.
Chat also received some accessibility improvements, getting new audio cues that can be enabled by developers. Furthermore on the Chat front: “Chat responses are provided to screen readers as soon as they come in and the inline and chat panel accessibility help menus contain more detailed information about what to expect and how to interact with each feature.”
The June update also features many more fixes, tweaks and improvements, summarized by Microsoft (with links for more information) like this:
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