An interesting AI experiment here with Copilot from GitHub in handling some code I don’t work with that often. Read on and watch.
This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems.
SQL Saturday Updates
I keep the sqlsaturday.com site updated with code updates through GitHub. The repository is here: https://github.com/sqlsaturday/sqlsatwebsite
I had hoped most organizers would fork this and use pull requests to update it, but surprisingly few data professionals are comfortable in Git. It’s fine, and I don’t mind.
However, sometimes I get text updates that are a bit cumbersome to make. Recently I had someone send me a bunch of table text to update, and as I was editing, I realized that Copilot in VS Code had improved dramatically. You can watch below how it worked.
Early in the Copilot days, I’d only get the next line added and sometimes the ending tag. Later, it started to suggest things, but from a guess standpoint, not reading what I’d pasted into the editor.
Now, it’s really, really helpful.
A cool way that AI can speed up your work, albeit one not a lot of data professionals might need.