Coding with AI
I coded with GitHub Copilot for the first time recently. Since moving over to Product Management, I haven't coded much except in small bursts for personal projects. But, at 9:12am I decided to download VSCode and just see how long it would take to get myself up and running. 9:20am, I was up and running and asking IT to do all the things I'd normally spend time doing through IntelliSense, and other shortcuts. 9:25am, I hit a snag - and before turning to Google, I just asked the built in Copilot. It pointed out what I'd overlooked, and let me resolve with a button press. 17 minutes and I'd written a basic app. I started to build out an imagined user story - user types in a texbox, clicks a button, event triggers, etc. As I built and refined the workflow in my head, I used the inline Copilot to rapidly prototype the code. Sometimes it gave me a less efficient solution, other times it referenced objects that hadn't yet been declared... But the capabilities were all ther...