Thursday, July 3, 2025

Get in the Vibe with Copilot Agent: Supercharging Your Coding Flow

Have you ever felt "in the zone" while coding? That feeling of seamless flow, where the code practically writes itself? That's the "vibe" - and with the new GitHub Copilot Agent feature, we're one step closer to unlocking that magic every time we sit down to code.

This blog post will explore how Copilot Agent, particularly when combined with projects like Vibe Coding (and its concepts), can revolutionize your development workflow. Let's dive in!

What is Vibe Coding?

At its core, Vibe Coding is about optimizing the coding experience. It's about minimizing friction, enhancing focus, and fostering a positive and productive environment. This is achieved through:

  • Personalized Environments: Tailoring your workspace (editors, themes, etc.) to suit your preferences and mood.
  • Contextual Awareness: Understanding the task at hand, the surrounding code, and your coding style to provide relevant suggestions and assistance.
  • Workflow Optimization: Streamlining common tasks, automating repetitive processes, and connecting with other tools.

Enter GitHub Copilot Agent: Your AI Coding Companion

GitHub Copilot Agent is the latest evolution in AI-powered coding assistants. It goes beyond simple code completion to become a true partner in the development process. Copilot Agent can:

  • Understand Your Intent: By analyzing your code, comments, and context, it anticipates your needs and offers intelligent suggestions.
  • Generate Code from Natural Language: Describe what you want in plain English, and Copilot Agent will generate code, tests, and documentation.
  • Debug with Precision: Analyze your code for errors, explain them, and suggest fixes, all within your IDE.
  • Answer Questions and Offer Explanations: Need help understanding a complex piece of code or the nuances of a particular library? Ask Copilot Agent.

How Copilot Agent Enhances the Vibe

This is where the magic happens! By integrating Copilot Agent into your workflow, you can amplify the principles of Vibe Coding and achieve a truly immersive coding experience:

  • Reduced Cognitive Load: Copilot Agent handles the tedious tasks, freeing up your brainpower for the creative aspects of coding. This is core to reducing friction and increasing focus, essential components of a good "vibe."
  • Faster Iteration: Quick code generation and debugging cycles allow you to experiment and iterate more rapidly, leading to quicker progress and increased momentum.
  • Personalized Assistance: The more you use Copilot Agent, the better it understands your style and preferences. This personalization allows it to tailor suggestions and make your workflow feel more natural and intuitive.
  • Enhanced Learning: Copilot Agent can explain code, offer alternative solutions, and provide insights into best practices. This helps you learn and grow as a developer, fostering a positive and engaging coding experience.

Putting it into Practice: Using Copilot Agent with the Vibe Coding ConceptsLet's look at some practical examples, inspired by the Vibe Coding ideas and using the GitHub Copilot Agent:

  • Setting the Stage: Project Initialization & Environment Setup: (Based on the idea of Personalized Environments from Vibe Coding)
    • Goal: You want to quickly set up a new Python project with a virtual environment and a basic directory structure.
    • Action with Copilot Agent: In your IDE, you might use Copilot Agent with prompts like:
      • "Create a Python project named 'my-awesome-app' with a virtual environment."
      • "Create a 'src' directory with a 'main.py' file and a 'tests' directory with a 'test_main.py' file."
      • The Copilot Agent will generate the initial structure, saving you time and effort. You can further customize the appearance of your code (colors, fonts) which the copilot agent could potentially learn to suggest.
  • Code Generation from Natural Language: (Leveraging Contextual Awareness)
    • Goal: You want to write a function in Python that calculates the average of a list of numbers.
    • Action with Copilot Agent:
      • Type a comment above your function, such as: # Function to calculate the average of a list of numbers
      • Let Copilot Agent suggest the function. You can then adapt the function to your exact needs, all within the flow of your code. Copilot Agent can also help you by testing.
  • Debugging with Ease: (Workflow Optimization)
    • Goal: You encounter a bug in your code, a typical "vibe killer".
    • Action with Copilot Agent:
      • Paste the code snippet in question into your IDE and ask, "Explain the error in this code." or "Suggest a fix for this bug." Copilot Agent can analyze the code, identify the problem, explain the cause, and even provide a suggested fix. This allows you to regain focus quickly and resolve issues efficiently.

The Future of Vibe Coding

The combination of tools like GitHub Copilot Agent and the principles of Vibe Coding has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach software development. As AI continues to advance, we can expect even more sophisticated and personalized tools that will enhance our focus, creativity, and overall coding experience.

Getting Started

To experience the power of Copilot Agent and embrace the Vibe:

  • Sign up for GitHub Copilot Agent.
  • Install the Copilot extension in your preferred IDE (VS Code, etc.).
  • Start coding and experiment! Use comments to guide code generation, ask questions to understand code, and let Copilot Agent be your partner in the coding journey.
  • Explore the Vibe Coding repository (https://github.com/sshindetech/vibe-coding) for inspiration and further ideas on optimizing your coding environment. This project is completely built using vibe coding.


Happy coding, and may your vibe always be strong!

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

AEM Proxy Component Pattern and Component Versioning



Most organization want to keep content and user experience flexible so that they can innovate and deliver new experiences/features faster. Flexibility allows organizations to reuse what has been built already and keep adding new features and functionalities on top of it. One of the key characteristics of flexibility is backward compatibility and non-breaking changes.

This flexibility comes with a clear definition of a strategy for content creation and user experience.

In this article we are going to look at 2 very simple but powerful component development strategies that organization (specifically technical teams) can adopt to win the flexibility game and stay ahead in competition of delivering rich user experience.

 

Let’s start with a scenario/problem statement. 

Assume that a large banking organization has business in multiple countries. The organization is using AEM and MSM (Multi Site Manager) to manage regional sites. The bank started using a video component (custom developed) few years ago. The video component is integrated with Google analytics. The bank is starting business in few new countries and has decided to use Adobe analytics on new websites for video tracking.

The common considerations to implement such scenario:

  • We need to ensure that existing component’s functionality (Google analytics) is not impacted
  • We need to just update the tracking behaviour of component (ideally this can be achieved using a well-defined DataLayer and Tag management implementation, we’ll ignore DataLayer for now)
  • Maintain both functionalities side-by-side but independently 

To make the problem more complex, assume that we have 500K pages where existing video component is being used today and we don’t want to impact existing pages.

How is the bank going to achieve this? The bank needs to ensure that existing functionality (Google analytic tracking) is not impacted. Let’s look at some of the options first, we’ll discuss solution later.

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 As you can see both approaches can impose additional risk and demands time. This translates to additional expense.

 

Is there better way to handle this? 

Yes, this is where Proxy Component and Component Versioning can help.

 

What is Proxy Component?

AEM relies on “sling:resourceType” property to identify which component is responsible for rendering. The rendering component can further extend from another parent component using “sling:resourceSuperType” property. This concept is similar to Object Oriented programming (a class can extend from another class). But where is the proxy component? 

Proxy component is a component that is just a placeholder component whose “sling:resourceSuperType” property points to an actual rendering component. Instead of using actual component while creating pages/content, we refer to this proxy component. Think of this proxy component as an interface (in Object Orient programming). Implementation behind interface can change without asking consumers of interface to change anything forcefully. Similar, if we are using proxy component, we can point to a different component in future (by updating the sling:resourceSuperType property of proxy component). We don’t need to update the “sling:resourceType” property in content tree.

This is typically useful when a component is already used and we don’t want to find all the references and replace them one by one. We can simply change the pointer (sling:resourceSuperType property) of proxy component to point to new implementation/version of component. We’ll see versioning next.

 

What is component versioning?

As name suggests, component versioning allows us to create different version of same component. If we were to compare this with object-oriented programming, think of component versions as various implementation of a base component (or interface or abstract class). Each version of component inherits the functionality from base component and then we can add/update new features. Proxy component allows us to switch the implementation from one version to another. We’ll look at an example later in this article.

 

We can use above capabilities to address scenarios like what we have one (banking video component scenario that we assumed above in this article). The company could use proxy component and component versioning to reduce the risk.

Let’s talk about an example solution. Let’s see how we can structure our video component using proxy component pattern and leverage component versioning which will allow us to switch from one implementation to another easily.

//The page (cq:Page) in "united-states" site where video component is being used
{
  "/content/my-bank/united-states/home/jcr:content/video":'',
      "jcr:primaryType": "nt:unstructured",
      // Pointing to proxy component (see below)
      "sling:resourceType": "my-bank/components/video" 
}

// This is PROXY video component pointing to (v1) of video component
{
  "/apps/my-bank/components/video":'',
      "jcr:primaryType": "cq:Component",
      // Pointing to v1 of Video component
      "sling:resourceSuperType": "my-bank/core-component-lib/video/v1/video" 
}

// v1 Component: GOOGLE Analytics tracking implementation
{
  "/apps/my-bank/core-component-lib/video/v1/video":'',
      "jcr:primaryType": "cq:Component",
      "video.html": "",
          // This is based Model interface
          "data-sly-use.model": "com.suryakand.demo.model.Video" 
}

// Model interface (implemented by both V1 and V2 version of Video component)
package com.suryakand.demo.model;
public interface Video {

}

// Model implementation (for version v1) of Video component
package com.suryakand.demo.model.impl.v1; // Note the package name (v1)
@Model(
  adaptables = SlingHttpServletRequest.class, 
  adapters = { Video.class}, 
  // Note the (v1) in resource path
  resourceType = "my-bank/core-component-lib/video/v1/video" 
)
public class VideoImpl implements Video {
  
}

// v2 Component: ADOBE Analytics tracking implementation
{
  "/apps/my-bank/core-component-lib/video/v2/video":'',
      "jcr:primaryType": "cq:Component",
      "video.html": "",
          // This is based Model interface
          "data-sly-use.model": "com.suryakand.demo.model.Video" 
}

// Model implementation (for version v2) of Video component
package com.suryakand.demo.model.impl.v2; // Note the package name (v2)
@Model(
  adaptables = SlingHttpServletRequest.class, 
  adapters = { Video.class}, 
  // Note the (v2) in resource path
  resourceType = "my-bank/core-component-lib/video/v2/video" 
)
public class VideoImpl implements Video {
  
}

Get in the Vibe with Copilot Agent: Supercharging Your Coding Flow

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