GitHub Copilot: Your friendly neighborhood AI pair programmer!

First impressions : GitHub’s Co-Pilot using OpenAI Codex is a game changer.

Source: GitHub

Background : From Wikipedia - GitHub Copilot is an artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code by autocompleting code. GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex, a modified version of GPT-3 (a language model designed to produce human-like text) that is designed to produce valid computer code. Copilot is trained on public GitHub repositories of any license.

You write comments, it pops out code. Thats one upside of this, engineers finally writing comments in their code!

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