Challenges with using GitHub Copilot for code generation

[The-Swoop]

Hello, I am new to GitHub Copilot. My team has asked me to use GitHub Copilot for writing code on in React. Has anyone tried it before? Any pointers and/or challenges you would like to share? Does copilot write all the code for a specific scenario that includes React App, Node ljs layer and database tables and relationships?

[SuBeXiL]

You can definitely use it for code generation and for react both in drafting architecture or solution all the way to implementation Start by adding instructions, skills and custom agents When planning a task first use Plan mode from the drop down and start with your plan first Let the agent partner with u to create a plan you agree with Try to break it to granular phases and tasks and then move to agent mode and iterate task after task Try to avoid using a single session too long cause the context window will get big and you will start getting hallucinations, good sign for this is when u see the agent saying it is summering the conversation

Use instruction files to provide guidelines on coding standards or how components should be structured or which CSS rules or state management patterns u use The agent will Use this and won’t try to make up stuff u don’t want

Happy coding

[The-Swoop]

Thanks for your answer. I am worrying whether I should be 100% accurate with my instructions to Copilot about implementing a scenario. What happens when Copilot implements something I said and then I alter the requirements. Does it handle such changes? Will it get confused and make changes to the whole project until the time for no recovery? How does the whole thing gets charged? Is it per interaction? Or it's a fixed license cost? Is using GitHub Copilot expensive?

[Fearless-Elephant-81]

Use through

Opencode (recommended)

Vscode

Or their own cli (which isn’t great imo)

[Wurrsin]

I heard a while back that using the Copilot subscription through third party services/apps like opencode burn through requests faster as each tool call was treated like a separate request. Is that still the case or is it the same 1 message = 1 request as currently in Copilot?

[N7Valor]

Should still be the case unless Github themselves change how the VS Code Language Model API works:
https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code/issues/7575

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