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by sbierwagen 1771 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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>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.