The Copilot's knowledge about Flutter is outdated

[lariex]

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Flutter's latest version is v3.10.3, but Copilot is still stuck at v2.5.3

[Akash1134]

Hi @lariex ,

Copilot provides suggestions based on the public code available and it may contain references to outdated data or APIs or idioms. When GitHub Copilot synthesizes code suggestions based on this data, it can also synthesize code that contains these undesirable patterns. This is something we care a lot about at GitHub, and in recent years we’ve provided tools such as GitHub Actions, Dependabot, and CodeQL to open source projects to help improve code quality.

You should always use GitHub Copilot together with good testing and code review practices and security tools, as well as your own judgment.

More on GitHub Copilot’s always-on security filter for suggestions

Thanks!

[pitAlex]

@Akash1134 are you guys planning to ever update it to the latest APIs? I am a web developer and find very little use for copilot chat outside basic js questions because, for example, since 2021 Angular has changed a lot, with breaking changes. Thus, something you would in 2021 is not the same as you would do it today. It makes the copilot chat really unusable for trying to resolve some of the challenges that are specific to the newer API and it can't provide answers. Even autocompletion, when it detects what I am writing it will based on 2021 APIs popping deprecated or even removed methods.

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[chadananda]

Is there any hack to get copilot to refer to updated documentation? It seems to be only good for generic Cobol suggestions. It's using the tiny context-window 2020 cutoff GPT-3, which means I'm still copying and pasting into ChatGPT.

[Conan-Ding]

copilot really get knowledge outdated. For instance, it does not have any knowledge about later react or angular version. By now, it still says latest react version is 17.0.2 and angular is 12.2.4. This problem also exists when I ask copilot some knowledge about some other frameworks and libraries. Some of these libs are even no longer maintained.

If the copilot team does not have resource to get the AI updated to latest resource, is it possible to leverage the power of the community for help?

[chadananda]

Ideally, a code assistant would summarize, store and reference your entire project as well as the documentation for whatever framework you are using and modules you have imported. There are great tools for this, but they are all disjointed. The dev server output should be visible to Copilot so it can read any errors and respond to them directly. My job as a developer shouldn't be the copy and paste guy -- moving information between the server, the GPT4 with docs and Copilot in the IDE.

[Conan-Ding]

I agree. In my perspective, a software engineer should do more in design and focus on high level business logic implementation with assistances from AI. Implementing common logic and getting stuck with broke documents of some libraries are really just waste of time and money, especially for senior level engineers. I am not saying that chatgpt and copilot is useless, they do write some good boilerplate level and come in handy when I try to type some fake data for component testing, but it is far from boosting our productivity remarkably.

For instance, in one of the projects, I try to develop an authentication flow, and I try to generate key pair for every end user each time when then login so sensitive can be encrypted and signed. The whole business logic were supposed to be completed in two days, given that some basic function could be just be copy and paste. But due to the problems I have with the libraries, I got stuck there and copilot cannot help much because the code are separated in different projects and files. And when I ask chatgpt3 and copilot for help, the best they can do is guessing and provide solutions on top of that. So I still need to do a lot more research, experiment different approach, even try to downgrade some of these libraries so see the results. All these time could be saved if AI can overlook the project and tells me some possible reasons in my specific case.

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[jtavio]

Hello, when are you planning to update the Dart and Flutter AI model, as far as I can tell, they have only been around since 2021, some answers are already obsolete, could you give it an update since if it continues like this, it won't be of much help

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[athul-22]

Yes true

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