Summary of Is Copilot the future of code writing?
- Microsoft and OpenAI announced GitHub Copilot last June 29.
- The tool takes advantage of GitHub’s huge code repository to help developers by offering them pair programming with an AI.
- The AI auto-completes lines of code with suggestions, or even entire functions.
- The idea of computers that can write their own code is not new, but until now they haven’t been very versatile.
- Many developers have been testing Copilot on a day-to-day basis, and most of them have accepted suggestions and have not turned off the feature.
- Are developers contributing to create a feature that may end up replacing their own work?
- Will an increasing part of development be done by AI in the future?
Professor of Innovation at IE Business School. Author of "Living in the future"
