{"id":1729,"date":"2021-06-30T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2021-06-30T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:57:19","slug":"github-copilot-%c2%b7-your-ai-pair-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/github-copilot-%c2%b7-your-ai-pair-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Copilot \u00b7 Your AI pair programmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/copilot.github.com\/\">This<\/a> looks super impressive and is potentially game-changing. Auto-completion has been around for ages, since the early days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/\">Visual Assist<\/a>, to Visual Studio Autocomplete. This is another level. It works like <a href=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/a-brief-overview-of-gpt-3\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1600\">GPT-3<\/a> in that it tries to suggest whole section of code or a complete function based on comments and other signals. This will be something that companies will pay for. Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=27676266\">HN comments<\/a>, alpha testers gave it rave reviews. It&#8217;s currently in technical preview. Can&#8217;t wait for general availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/copilot.github.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/social.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/copilot.github.com\/\">GitHub Copilot \u00b7 Your AI pair programmer<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks super impressive and is potentially game-changing. Auto-completion has been around for ages, since the early days of Visual Assist, to Visual Studio Autocomplete. This is another level. It works like GPT-3 in that it tries to suggest whole section of code or a complete function based on comments and other signals. This will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}