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I find documentation and examples of using copilot quite limited. Anyone have any good pointers? Specifically I’m interested in how you can tune copilot on a

• gavinray 4y ago
  Also interested in this, I don't think you can. One piece of info I was able to get out of copilot devs directly in their Q&A session was that it looks at other open tabs for completion context (the example they gave being header files in C/C++, commonly open alongside implementations). I've taken to just prototyping things in giant, single files because Copilot at least has the entire program in it's buffer (I think) to give suggestions based on. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/29932#discussioncomment-3473154 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/29932#discussi...
  • turkishmonky 4y ago
    GPT-3 codex has a limit of 8k tokens, which is roughly 32k characters - so you are limited to that much context at a maximum. With the time it takes to return results with that much context, I wouldn't be suprised if they generally limit context to less than that though.