Comment by m4rtink
2 months ago
I don't think you can say it learns - and that is part of the issue. Time mentoring a new colleague is well spent making the colleague grow professionally.
Time hand-holding an AI agent is wasted when all you guidance inevitably falls out of the context window and it start making the same mistakes again.
> you guidance inevitably falls out of the context window
Yes, for a pure LLM session.
But using GitHub Copilot, the agent server picks out what it thinks is your most important rules, and inserts them as part of the context before running each new prompt.
So it becomes a sort of "long-term memory" outside of the context window.
You can also write your own copilot-instructions.md which is also inserted into the context window.
That's why you put it in either code documentation or context files (like dotMD).