Now, of course, the AI-powered completions are very
useful and can significantly speed you up, but maybe the more
interesting feature offered by GitHub Copilot is the integrated
AI chat, which you can open in a couple of
For example, with help of this button here at the top.
Here you can open a chat, an inline chat or a quick
chat, and I'll get back to inline and quick chat later.
For now, I'll just use open chat or use the shortcut that's shown here.
By default, it opens in that sidebar, in that secondary
sidebar, so the shortcut for opening or closing that sidebar should
typically also work, and then you have this chat window here.
Now, this chat window can also be opened in
places, not just in this sidebar. You can open it in
a new window if you want to. So now I would have it
detached from Visual Studio Code, which would allow me to open it on a
second screen, for example, or you can move it into
the editor area, which opens it, well, in that editor
area so that you could use the sidebar for something else.
That simply depends on what your preferences are.
But we'll get back to this sidebar chat and the AI agents a
little bit later because there also are two other chats which I
wanna explore first.