[mallamanis]

[I'm one of the Microsoft Research people who worked on this]

That's certainly true for simple use cases. Our goal here is to eventually also capture the long-tail of queries about a codebase. Often, within the domain of a project there is a set of natural language terms/jargon that describe complex tasks specific to the domain. Imagine for example a developer joining a mid-sized project and trying to find how to achieve some simple but project/domain-specific task.