Advanced Techniques for Documenting Code with GitHub Copilot

In this episode of Prompt Driven Development, Maxim Salnikov, AI Dev Tools Solution Engineer at Microsoft, demonstrates how to document an app using GitHub Copilot, generating a polished README, API docs, and inline code comments with advanced prompting techniques. He also demos Copilot’s BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) feature, allowing teams to connect their own AI model API keys for greater flexibility. Additionally, Maxim shows how to use prompt files in VS Code - reusable Markdown-based prompts that standardize workflows like code generation, reviews, and scaffolding.

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🔎 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 In this video
00:55 Demo - personal expense tracker
01:33 Read me files
03:03 API documentation
03:27 Edit mode
04:17 BYOK - bring your own key
05:29 Inline code comments
07:18 A review of best practices used
08:59 Happy prompting

🎙️ Featuring:
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