[ShamelessC]

You "came up" with the idea for intelligent autocomplete? And are you aware that this project actually required big innovations in language modeling and a supercomputer? Because I would say that is far more central to the concept behind the tech than the interface.

[bmitc]

An idea is not an implementation, and I clearly mentioned it was an offhand comment in a casual conversation. My "idea" was exactly what I described above. Nothing more. I'm sure several had this idea, and Copilot was probably already in development. My comment was just a way to give a personal anecdote. I'm not sure what your point or complaint is. Did you somehow miss the reference to Office Space? It wasn't a serious claim. Just a segue to some thoughts I had.

[ShamelessC]

okay yeah - I apologize. In the context of other comments it seemed a little more dismissive of the tech itself. I see now that you were quite clearly going for humility. Should have caught it on the first read however, sorry again.

[bmitc]

Not a problem. :) Context and tone is hard in text. I felt silly saying that but I did have the idea I mentioned. I have a pretty good track record of having ideas I have no clue how to implement. Haha. Why the visual programming analysis project went nowhere. It's like tech and programming shower thoughts.

The Copilot tech is completely of my league.