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The other shoe that needs to drop is ability to tell the AI: "Look at this project. Using it as a context, do <whatever>"

The current state seems like a very useful tool in its beginning, but it will need to be able to grok entire project to be able to jeopardize jobs of even the most junior developers.

I'm looking forward to the day it can do this, and then I'll be able to tell it: "write unit tests for this function" :-)

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Is that not just an access problem?

I asked it for java code to reverse a string. And then asked if it could pull the reversing method out into a separate function. Which it did flawlessly.

Definitely a part of it is access problem - it would be great if we had an open source version we could unleash on our complete projects locally. Or just give ChatGPT access to the github repo!

I'd still be willing to bet entire (nontrivial) projects would be too complex for it to give accurate (not just plausibly looking) results.

Not to diminish the achievement in any way - I think this (& copilot) are useful additions to the programmer's tool belt.

You can paste java code into it and ask for a new field to be added.

Not sure if it can fix logic errors.

It already does. Github Copilot understands perfectly the context of the project I am working on and the suggestions are in line with it.

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