Github Copilot can be your best friend inside your IDE but also a pain in the *** when it keeps coming up with suggestions you are not waiting for. Of course you could disable the Github Copilot extension in your IDE, but that would be a shame. Hit snooze A small but useful feature I discovered recently is the Snooze option in VSCode. This allows you to disable Copilot for a short amount of time (5 minutes by default). To use this feature, click on the Github icon in the right bottom corner of VSCode: Now you see a Snooze button. Click on it to hide completions and suggestions for the next 5 minutes. A timer appears counting down and the Copilot icon is updated to indicate that the snooze mode is active (nice touch). You can cancel the snooze period at any moment by clicking on the Stop button.
With the ever growing list of supported AI models in Github Copilot, there is one question that is getting harder to answer. Which model should I use? You can try to safe some money and stay away from the premium request models, but even then you have a lot of options to choose from. You also could check out the model recommendations based on the task you try to achieve but isn’t there a better way? Enter Auto mode With the latest update of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code now a new Auto option is available. When you select Auto from the model picker, Copilot will select an appropriate model for you. It is not clear what criteria are used to select a model but you can find out the chosen model at the bottom of the response: Be aware that it is be possible that Auto mode could choose a premium request model, although a discount of 10% is applied when auto mode selects a premium requests model (if you are using a paid plan). For example, Sonn...