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So what exactly does GitHub Copilot give
us?

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Chances are high
that you already know some

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the little tips and tricks
that might be helpful to know

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features you might have not heard about
yet.

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So here,
I'm in a very basic Python project,

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UV,
which is simply a tool for creating

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and you absolutely don't have to install
it.

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You don't have to follow along because
we'll not build a complex project here.

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Instead, we'll write some code so
that I can walk you through the various

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features offered by GitHub Copilot.

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So a Python project it is. Now,
the first thing GitHub

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Copilot offers you is smart, AI-powered

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autocompletion. If I, for example,
introduce a variable named

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Name, I'll get this suggestion here.

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I have not accepted it yet,
but I can hit Tab to accept it.

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I can, of course, also change it. That
was the AI code completion by GitHub

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Copilot in action. That
is actually the first feature with

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started many years ago,
but now it's just one of the features and

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arguably not the most important ones.

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Still, of course, a useful feature,
which can significantly speed up

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typing and writing code.
What's also nice is that you don't just

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get this inline smart completion, but, for

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example, if I rename this function here,
I'll

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typically get suggestions like this one,
which are so-called next

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edit suggestions,
where it suggests a change in a

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different line of code than I was,
which I can also accept with

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Tab,
based on the edits I made in other parts

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So it tries to anticipate what I'll likely
do next.

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By the way, that's a feature
which you can enable

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GitHub Copilot thing here in the toolbar,
in the status bar, and

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then here,
you can turn off next edit suggestions or

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all AI suggestions if you don't want them.

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You can also decide that on a per file
or a file type basis.

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Now,
when Copilot gives you these suggestions,

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you can of course accept them by hitting
Tab, but one thing many people

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don't know is you can also hover over
that suggestion, and in

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some cases,
you'll then see different variants.

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For example here,
if I add a variable called Person,

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I can hover over the suggestion instead of
just blindly

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accepting it,
and it actually shows me three different

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in this situation. When you're trying it,
it might be different.

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But here, I get three options, which
are quite different.

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The first one is just a different name,
but then it actually wants to create a

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dictionary,
which stores information about a person,

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And you can cycle through these options
and then accept the option you want by

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hitting Tab or by clicking Accept.

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And you can also just accept words by
clicking this button or

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using this shortcut so
that you can accept it step by step

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that. And that, of course,
can come in handy in situations where you

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some AI assistance with the
autocompletions, but don't want the

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exact completion it's suggesting in this
very moment.

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What's also useful about these AI
suggestions is that you can use them in

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conjunction with comments. For example,
if I add a comment,

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"Function that combines two strings," it
starts suggesting

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this function for me.
So you can use comments to essentially

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write prompts, and that, of course,
can also save you some time.

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And obviously,
you can then also delete the comments

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function.