GitHub Copilot — New phenomenon!
I still remember my initial training days where I used to struggle to get my syntax right while writing code — compile and build it, too far in my imagination.
For someone getting started now on Visual Studio — I strongly recommend you to take a look at Copilot.
So what is Github Copilot in plain language?
It’s a partner that assists you to write your code by drawing insights from your comments or code and fills the individual lines of code or the whole function altogether.
Q) How is it able to work?
A) Given GitHub visibility into billions of lines of code available at its disposal — codex, New AI system developed by OpenAI trains datasets, that will enable it to read the context and mark up to you give better suggestions.
Q) How is it available today what all it reads?
A) It is available as an extension of Visual Studio and not just that it can work well for python, JavaScript, TypeScript and more
More than auto filing like Intellisense and giving you suggestions Copilot gives you more into actual coding and fills up the details for you.
But is this completely reliable — the answer is NO.
Business Implications:
The world is ready for a new revolution here. Imagine how things can drastically change when workflows get started to get created on the fly based on context reads.
Furthermore
- Clean code (Already tested and used)
- Saves time for developers
- Authentic
On the flip side:
- Code plagiarism
- Machine interpretation for contexts — reliability
- The extra burden for quality teams to run for negative case scenarios
In spite of all of these — what we are looking for here is a fantastic development.
Imagine if the same can be extended to various other platforms.
Courtesy: https://copilot.github.com/
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