[superfrank]

> Perhaps people on HN start sensing that successors of Github Copilot will take their programming job. Rightly so.

I still think we're a long way from that. Copilot will help write code quicker, but it's not doing anything you couldn't do with a Google search and copy/paste. Once developers move beyond the jr. level, writing code tends to become the least of their worries.

Writing the code is easy, understanding how that code will affect the rest of the system is hard.

[tylersmith]

Based on the responses I've seen, people have it in their heads that Copilot is a system where you describe what kind of software you want and it finds it on Github and slaps your own license on it.

It's just a smarter tab-completion.

[fragmede]

Depends on your definition of "a long way". Some of the GPT3 based code generation demos (which, explicitly, are just that - demos - we aren't shown the limitations of the system during the demo) say that's closer than I think.

https://analyticsindiamag.com/open-ai-gpt-3-code-generator-a... has a bunch of videos of this in action.

[krainboltgreene]

That's because the training set had that specific demo, not because copilot imagined up a demo.