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Identify the key use cases where GitHub Copilot chat is most effective

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Identify the key use cases where GitHub Copilot chat is most effective

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- [Instructor] Well, Chat is really the currency, isn't it? Let's face it. The idea is asking questions for code generation. "Please help me build this. Please help me refactor that." There's taking existing code, maybe that's unfamiliar, "Explain it to me." How can we refactor, optimize for performance, for security? Whatever it might be. The debugging cycle. Another assistant, another option for bug fixing. In the demo today, in this lesson, we'll do unit test generation. These are low-hanging fruit, 80% scenarios where GitHub Copilot Chat really excels. I'd also throw in, I am a technical trainer after all, learning and skill development. And lastly, let's switch over to whiteboard mode here. This is a screen capture from the GitHub Copilot Chat experience, in which I'm invoking one of those slash commands that we will formally cover in this lesson, I'm happy to say. This is a callout, is a reminder that remember that the different IDEs, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim…

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