GitHub Copilot review
Although the Copilot technical preview does not always provide nice, correct, or even running code, it is nevertheless useful. Future versions may prove to be significant time saves. GitHub Copilot, dubbed "Your AI pair programmer" and currently in a limited technical preview, aims to help automate programming in a way that goes beyond what IntelliSense and similar tools can do. It isn't totally self-contained. As we'll see, you must specify (write out) your objectives before Copilot can produce useful code, and you must also supervise Copilot to keep it on track when it inevitably goes off the tracks. Copilot is a cloud service that connects to Visual Studio Code (on your local machine or in the cloud via GitHub Codespaces), JetBrains IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, and Neovim. OpenAI Codex, a language model trained on billions of lines of public code, powers the cloud service, which is a code prediction engine. Yes, there was a debate over Codex and Copilot. Before you ge