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by refulgentis 1773 days ago
I'm trying to extract some signal from this link...lots of upvotes, no comments, 30 min old, top 3 on HN...I'm worried this will be read as negative, but it's not, just learning, and enough time has passed I'm itching to jump in and ask:

- Is the significance here exactly what it says on the tin: the model behind GitHub's AI code completion will be shared with people on an invite basis? Or am I missing something?

- What is the practical import of the quote at the end of this comment?

"can now" makes me think its a new feature over Github's implementation, which would then indicate the "simple commands" could be general UI, or at least IDE UI, navigation.

If "can now" means "it is currently capable of, but will be capable of more", then I'd expect it to be the same as the current implementation on Github.

Quote: "Codex can now interpret simple commands in natural language and execute them on the user’s behalf—making it possible to build a natural language interface to existing applications."
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sbierwagen 1773 days ago
Take a look at the video demo. It takes natural text in a box and generates code. Copilot was super-autocomplete, so the interface was writing code in an IDE that it filled out for you. Natural language interface will be a little easier for non-programmers. (Though, how would you read the code to make sure it does what you meant...)
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polyanos 1773 days ago
>Take a look at the video demo. It takes natural text in a box and generates code. Copilot was super-autocomplete, so the interface was writing code in an IDE that it filled out for you.

No it wasn't, you can literally describe, in natural text, what you want in a comment and CoPilot will do its best to generate a complete method based on that comment. It seemed like it was so auto-compltely because that focussed on the "helping the developer" part.

I'm fairly sure CoPilot could have shown something similar if they had a demo where you could make something visual easily, like HTML + Javascript/Typescript/whatever scripting language. They're using exactly the same model (Codex) after all.

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