Content by rob bos (26)
Rob Bos demonstrates hands-on techniques for using the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent to automate real development tasks, highlighting workflow automation, practical prompts, and DevOps best practices.
Rob Bos explains how GitHub Copilot “Premium Requests” work, what features and model choices consume premium requests, what each plan includes, and how to use budgets and usage reports to avoid surprise charges.
In this insightful post, Rob Bos critiques current productivity metrics in engineering teams—especially with GitHub Copilot in the mix—and offers practical strategies for embracing AI tools for real business value.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's MCP with Azure and GitHub feature. Empower Agent Mode with extra context and capabilities by supercharging it with MCP servers. See how you can bring in extra information from Azure resources to add extra information to creating GitHub issues.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's Premium Requests feature. What are GitHub Copilot Premium Requests and do their rate limits work? These chances will be in effect during the month of May. Read more info of the enforcements in the documentation.
In this post, Rob Bos challenges the current narrative around GitHub Copilot, advocating for a DevOps-focused approach rather than just productivity. He offers practical advice on integrating Copilot to strengthen engineering foundations and team processes.
In this post, Rob Bos details a recent security incident involving a compromised GitHub Action and offers guidance on securing your CI/CD pipelines with robust processes and tooling.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's Content Exclusions feature. With Content Exclusions you can exclude certain parts of your codebase from being sent to Copilot. Think for example of files containing sensitive information, like secrets.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's Usage Metrics feature. Track and analyze Copilot usage across your team.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's Chat on Mobile feature. Get coding assistance on-the-go with Copilot's mobile chat feature. This lets you summarize issues/pull requests/discussions, or ask broader questions about a repository for example.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's Commit Message Suggestions feature. Copilot proposes commit messages based on the code changes in the current changeset.
Rob Bos, presenting at DevCon Romania 2024, offers a comprehensive overview on protecting software supply chains from attacks, focusing on best practices in DevOps and pipeline security.
In this session recap, Rob Bos discusses strategies for scaling GitHub Copilot to thousands of developers, as presented at GitHub Universe 2024. The post includes a recorded session and slides.
Rob Bos provides a helpful guide on using the Azure Inference AI SDK in Python to connect to Azure OpenAI endpoints, including code examples for credential configuration.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's PR Body Generation in VS Code feature. Generate detailed PR descriptions directly in VS Code.
In this detailed article, Rob Bos explores how developers can create custom GitHub Copilot Extensions. He describes extension types, provides a development walkthrough, and offers practical tips for integrating APIs and managing user interactions within Copilot Chat.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's User Instructions feature. With user instructions in VS Code you can help guide Copilot in the right direction for your codebase, like being a Python 3 developer and skip older language constructs.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's Code Explanation feature. Get detailed explanations for complex code snippets with Copilot.
This video demonstrates GitHub Copilot's CLI Assistance feature. Streamline your command line tasks with Copilot's CLI assistance.
In this article, Rob Bos shares his experience leveraging GitHub Copilot Chat to streamline the development of a script designed for interacting with the GitHub API. Rob explains his workflow, detailing the prompts he used and the iterative nature of working with Copilot.