Microsoft’s AI Copilot Could Change the Coding Industry
When software developer Nikolai Avteniev got his hands on a preview version of Microsoft’s GitHub coding assistant in 2021, he quickly saw the potential.
Three years later, and now infused with the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology , GitHub's Copilot can do a lot more, including answering engineers' questions and converting code from one programming language to another.
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GitHub dominates its market and is betting Copilot has the AI horsepower to fight off rival services including Tabnine, Amazon's CodeWhisperer and Google-backed Replit Ghostwriter.?
As is true with AI generally, GitHub Copilot has limitations. Developers say it sometimes pulls up outdated code, provides unhelpful answers to questions and generates suggestions that are buggy or could infringe copyright. Because the tool is trained on public and open repositories of code, engineers run the risk of replicating security issues or injecting new ones into their work.
Some say automation will free coders up to focus on more challenging and interesting tasks. In interviews, some coders expressed fears that AI will replace them. Given recent advancements, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has recently predicted that coding as a career is doomed .
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6 个月AI is no where close to replacing programmers. In Visual Studio, we've already got intellisense, excellent documentation, snippets, pattern templates, stack overflow and other websites, great debugging, refactoring, on and on. VS has been around, and improved - what - 30 years (since VB 3)? In the .Net environment- what has AI contributed that we do not already have?
I've been working with GitHub Copilot a little. If it's something mundane it can be a helpful timesaver. If it's something unusual that would normally take some thought, I end up saying "That was pretty retarded..." and *maybe* end up hacking something out of the solution it gave me.