David Minkovski takes you on a hands-on journey to extend GitHub Copilot beyond just being a code assistant — turning it into a true AI-powered teammate inside VS Code.

Motivation

It is 2025 and Software Developers are faced with an incredibly fast-paced high-tech landscape — full of innovation and automation around every corner. Even with the consideration of AI taking on many roles (and hopefully not our jobs just yet) we are constantly challenged with rising complexities of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures and cognitive loads as well as context switching and endless interruptions.

I can proudly say, that it is in our nature, as fighters of the coding realm and as knights of logic, that we are constantly searching for ways to streamline our workflows while maintaining high-quality code. 

Because we all aspire to one ideal state of being:

But instead of doing that, we face the same old problems:

1. Managing Complicated Codebases: While trying to ensure scalability and maintainability — until the first new hire starts messing it all up.
2. Adhering to Coding Standards: Aligning with organizational and industry best practices — while fighting about semicolons and curly brackets!
3. Integrating New Technologies: Incorporating tools and frameworks —  all while leading philosophical discussions about the potential of world disruption or domination and our responsibility there…

So what are we going to do about this?

Check out the detailed plan of attack over on David’s blog.  Trust me, it’s worth the read.