Podcast 358: GitHub Copilot can write code for you. We put it to the test.
If you're looking for regex, meet your new best friend.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
We chat with Paul Ford and Cassidy Williams about the experience of using GitHub Copilot, an AI system that writes code for you. It was trained on millions of lines of code written by humans, but how close does it come to a living, breathing programmer? Well, if you’re looking for regex, meet your new best friend.
Episode Notes
You can find some fun video of Cassidy putting Copilot to the test here.
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5 Comments
Cool content!
Have you considered testing the AI stuff in Visual Studio 2021? It’s very similar.
Food for thought, perhaps.
Do you really want to start a podcast with a seemingly endless series of puerile wannabe jokes and comments and mutual interruptions which don’t say a damn thing of any use to anyone at all?
I don’t know exactly how long it went on, but I turned it off at 2:53. Good luck to anyone who lasted longer.
Nice listen! 1000% agree that it won’t take over or jobs (yet?) as there will need to be someone that understands what copilot is doing, so it’s important to know how it works under the hood. I wrote a blog about how it works + it’s limitations. Then discussed data collection, training & evaluation for large scale code generation with two of our NLP experts in the AI community. Would love your feedback!
https://medium.com/aggregate-intellect/github-copilot-data-collection-training-and-evaluation-for-large-scale-code-generation-6c1970993998?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=contentdist&utm_id=copilotblog
Good episode, thanks. I’m looking for other resources for github copilot so I can start looking into it myself. I found this article, but please let me know if you see any others. Thank you and good day
https://ai.science/l/d0a204b9-5bc5-494a-b8d2-848110366849@/streams/natural-language-processing?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=copilotrecipe